Provides personal histories of Chinese Americans who have lived through the twentieth century in the United States, including their difficulties during the exclusion era of World War II

Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828-1988

Politics & Social Sciences

McCunn, Ruthanne Lum

Social Sciences

Univ of Washington Pr

Thousand Pieces of Gold

This masterful biographical novelâ€”which has sold more than 100,000 copiesâ€”tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom and dignity as a pioneer woman. "A valuable book that gives Chinese Americans another true heroine." â€”Maxine Hong Kingston

Thousand Pieces Of Gold

Literature & Fiction

Laurel

The story of Lue Gim Gong, a Chinese immigrant to nineteenth-century America, who rose from virtual indentured servitude in New England to fame as a botanist, is told through the voices of three generations of Chinese women who cared for him. 15,000 first printing.

Wooden Fish Songs

United States

Plume

Dutton

Tells the story of a ship's steward who, after his vessel was torpedoed in 1942, survived for 133 days alone on a wooden raft

Sole Survivor (Scholastic Biography)

Biographies & Memoirs

scholastic

Sole Survivor Lib/E

Blackstone Publishing

Ruthanne Lum McCunn, author of the acclaimed THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, introduces the fascinating life story of Gim Gong Lue, a nineteenth-century horticultural pioneer. The dynamic narrative is told from the perspective of the three women who knew him best, his mother in China, a New England spinster, and his friend, a former slave.

Beacon Pr

When German U-boats sank the British Ben Lomond in 1942, its sole survivor was a second steward, Poon Lim, who managed to stay alive for 133 days on a wooden raft. Sole Survivor, based on three years of interviews with Poon and his family, reconstructs his remarkable ordeal and the survival techniques that earned him world celebrity and a listing in the Guiness Book of World Records. "A classic saga of ordeal and survival that reminds us of the courage, strength, and resourceful intelligence of which human beings are capable." -Tillie Olsen, author of Tell Me a Riddle

Sole Survivor

Historical

This masterful biographical novel—which has sold more than 100,000 copies—tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom and dignity as a pioneer woman. "A valuable book that gives Chinese Americans another true heroine." —Maxine Hong Kingston

Thousand Pieces of Gold : A Biographical Novel

Community & Culture

A rich historical novel that draws from the lives of the real young heroines of China's Pearl River Delta who in the nineteenth century won a battle for independence that changed the lives of thousands of others.

The Moon Pearl

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Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828-1988

Thousand Pieces Of Gold

Wooden Fish Songs

Wooden Fish Songs

Sole Survivor (Scholastic Biography)

Sole Survivor Lib/E

Wooden Fish Songs

Sole Survivor

Thousand Pieces of Gold : A Biographical Novel

The Moon Pearl