Bury My Bones in America : The Saga of a Chinese Family in California 1852-1996 from San Francisco to the Sierra Gold Mines
by Lani Ah Tye Farkas, Lani Ah Tye Farkas

This compelling story follows Ah Tye from his arrival in San Francisco, where he was involved in political intrigue and Tong Wars, to Sacramento, where he became a merchant, and finally to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where he established the successful You Bet Mine and started a family of noteworthy Chinese Americans. Ah Tye was the first prominent Chinese to have his bones buried in America, a drastic break from Chinese tradition.

On Gold Mountain : The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
by Lisa See

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.

China Men
by Maxine Hong Kingston

The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.

Of Orphans and Warriors : Inventing Chinese-American Culture and Identity
by Gloria H. Chun

"By deconstructing Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, and other lesser known constructions of orientalized Chinese, and juxtaposing these noxious stereotypes alongside the experiences and voices of a diverse group of authentic Chinese 'nisei', Chun informs her audience of what it means to be Chinese American, then Asian American and beyond. Using a mix of material from history, literature, and popular culture, she produces an impact that is at once painful and exhilarating, bitter and sweet."

Unbound Feet : A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
by Judy Yung

The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century...Yung highlights the many individual experiences of Chinese American women, and her skill as an oral history interviewer gives this work an immediacy that is poignant and effective. Her analysis of intraethnic class riftsa major gap in ethnic historysheds important light on the difficulties that Chinese American women faced in their own communities. Yung provides a more accurate view of their lives than has existed before, revealing the many ways that these womenrather than being passive victims of oppressionwere active agents in the making of their own history.

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
by Judy Yung

Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents--letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories--detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captivating mosaic of Chinese women's experiences in their own words, as they tell of making a home for themselves and their families in San Francisco from the Gold Rush years through World War II.

The Indispensable Enemy : Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
by Alexander Saxton

If They Don't Bring Their Women Here : Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion
by George Anthony Peffer

Fifth Chinese Daughter
by Jade Snow Wong

Jade Snow Wong grew up in a traditional Chinese family in San Francisco's pre-World War II Chinatown....On one level a universal story of a child learning to assert her own identity, Fifth Chinese Daughter is also a marvelous resource on Chinese cooking, festivals, and child-rearing techniques, as well as a picture of Chinatown before and during World War II. Straightforward, honest, full of love, Jade Snow Wong's book is a wonderful and educational reading experience.

Child of the Owl
by Laurence Yep

This spellbinding tale of the contradictions and special heritage of growing up Chinese-American is set in early 1960s Chinatown in San Francisco. Child of the Owl "combines chiseled fantasy with the anxiety of growing up poor and nonwhite."--Kirkus Reviews. Winner of the Boston GLobe-Horn Book Award for Fiction.

The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps
by Stephen Krensky

The role of Chinese Americans in the building of the transcontinental railroad is the subject of this simple docu-novel set in Cisco, California, in 1867. Told from the point of view of a white child, Winnie Tucker, the story focuses on the Chinese immigrant laborers who were forced to work for low pay under harsh and dangerous conditions....This will introduce middle-grade readers to a group of people much neglected in traditional accounts of the "opening up" of the West. Hazel Rochman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung : A Chinese Miner
by Laurence Yep

In this novel, 11-year-old Wong Ming-Chung, better known as Runt, starts keeping a journal in October 1851, when his Uncle Stone leaves their village in China for the Golden Mountain, the gold fields of America. Later that year, Runt makes the difficult and dangerous journey as well, eventually finding his way to his uncle. Working together at a rough mining camp, Runt finds good friends from around the world, violent prejudice against Chinese, and, eventually, a little gold.