Browse Items (76 total)

  • Collection: CALA Best Book Award Collection

Decoded

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"In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is…

Position: 352 (441 views)

Dragon Road: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1939

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This book has won the 2009 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Young Adult Books).

Position: 178 (498 views)

Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America

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This book has won the 2013 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Fiction).

Position: 204 (487 views)

Exhalation

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The collection, entitled Exhalation, written by science fiction author Ted Chiang was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2019. It includes nine unique and fascinating short stories. Among them, seven stories had been published before and won Hugo and…

Position: 334 (446 views)

Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity

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This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).

Position: 337 (445 views)

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

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"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American…

Position: 519 (373 views)

Front Desk

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"Author Kelly Yang tells a story about the family of Chinese immigrants who has been struggling with every day’s life, from the view of a ten-year-old girl who takes over the front desk of a motel that her parents manage. With her parents, this…

Position: 82 (557 views)

Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

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Gordon Chang, a history professor at Stanford and co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North American Project, wrote the remarkable book Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad which…

Position: 407 (421 views)

Girl in Translation

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This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Young Adult Books).

Position: 364 (437 views)

God of Luck

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This book has won the 2008 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Fiction).

Position: 229 (477 views)