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by: Iris Chang  List Price: $29.95 Price: $9.86 You Save: $20.09 (67%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Iris Chang made headlines in 1997 with the publication of The Rape of Nanking-a meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered examination of the sacking of that great city by the Japanese during World War II. Many readers of The Rape of Nanking responded to its themes of the fight for justice and the assertion of cultural identity-themes Chang expands upon in her new book. Chang, the daughter of second-wave Chinese immigrants, has written an extraordinary narrative that encompasses the entire history of one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day. Chang takes a fresh look at what it means to be an American and draws a complex portrait of the many accomplishments of the Chinese in their adopted country, from building the transcontinental railroad to major scientific and technological advances. A sensitive, deeply moving story of individuals whose lives have shaped and been shaped by this history, The Chinese in America is a saga of raw human tenacity and a testament to the determination of a people to forge an identity and destiny in a strange land. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Coming to America The Chinese in America "Chinese workers were prevented from immigrating to America by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Its passage was a watershed event in American history. Besides identifying for the first time a specific group of people by name as undesirable for immigration to the United States, the act also marked a fateful departure from the traditional American policy of unrestricted immigration." By William Wei Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder ... Read More Rating:  - Interesting but fatally flawedThe book is interesting and highly readable. I do not read much nonfiction intended for a mass market, so I found it at times condescending, simplistic, and repetitious, but it is much less so than the "how-to" books I have been given in the past. The book is written in an engaging style and has numerous interesting and revealing stories. It attempts what few books do, and it is valuable to the casual reader. However, it suffers from a number of flaws. 1) The distortion ... Read More Rating:  - An American StoryAs a naturalized citizen originally from China, I particularly appreciate Chang's closing remarks that hopefully most readers can come to see the stories in The Chinese in America as ultimately stories of Americans. I'd imagine an Irish immigrant 100 years ago, or a Mexican immigrant today, could tell me many parallel stories like those in this book. Would love to read about their storeis too, and hope that one day these are all seen as true American stories as ones about the Plymouth Rock and Lewis ... Read More Rating: - Chang's book a good place to start, but not a rigorous, scholarly accountIris Chang's narrative history of the Chinese in America is engrossing and involving. It provides a generalized history of China and the Chinese that spans two continents -- by no means an easy feat to do. It is well researched, and has definitely stoked my interest in reading more about Chinese (and Chinese-in-America) history. My problems with the book, however, lie mainly with her characterization of this text as a "narrative history", and the authorial liberties she takes as a consequence. ... Read More Rating: - Little known history of the Chinese in AmericaThe Chinese are very much in the news. My son is dating a Taiwanese girl and I have been doing some reading about the Chinese. They are a very industrious people. The only thing I ever learned about the chinese in school was that they worked on the first intercontinental railroad but there is a great deal more to their history in the U.S. Iris Chang is an excellent writer. 
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