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Choosing To Participate: Facing History and Ourselves Bibliography

Chinese-American Experience

TEEN/ADULT

This Bittersweet Soil cover art Chan, Sucheng.
This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture 1860-1910.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986.
(325.251 C3605t)


Chen, Yong.
Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2000.
(979.461 C42c)


Dicker, Laverne Mau.
The Chinese in San Francisco: A Pictorial History.
New York : Dover Publications, 1979.
(325.251 D558c)


Farkas, Lani Ah Tye.
Bury My Bones in America: The Saga of a Chinese Family in California, 1852-1996: From San Francisco to the Sierra Gold Mines.
Nevada City : Carl Mautz Publications, 1998.
(979.4004 F228b)


Gold Mountain Dreams.
Princeton, N.J. : Film for the Humanities, c2003.
(DVD 304.8 BECO pt.1)


Lee, Erika.
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
(325.2351 L5117a)


On Gold Mountain cover art See, Lisa.
On Gold Mountain: the One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family.
New York : Vintage Press, 1996, c1995.
(TEEN 929.2089 See 1996)


Tong, Benson.
Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1994.
(306.742 T613u)

Wu, Cheng-Tsu.
"Chink!" A Documentary History of Anti-Chinese Prejudice in America.
New York: World Pub., [1972]
(325.251 W945c)

Yung, Judy.
Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
(979.461 Y92uv)


CHILDREN'S

Walk Across the Sea cover art Fletcher, Susan.
Walk Across the Sea.
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2001.
(jF Flet)


Heisel, Sharon.
Precious Gold, Precious Jade.
New York : Holiday House, c2000.
(jF Heis)

Chinese American Family Album cover art Hoobler, Dorothy.
The Chinese American Family Album.
New York : Oxford University Press, c1994.
(j973.0495 Hoob)


Isaacs, Sally.
Life in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Chicago : Heinemann Library, c2003.
(j979.461 Isaa)

Flight of the Fisherbird cover art Martin, Nora.
Flight of the Fisherbird.
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Book; [S.I.]: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2003.
(jF Mart)


McCunn, Ruthanne.
An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America.
San Francisco : Design Enterprises of San Francisco, c1979.
(j325.251 Mac)

Meltzer, Milton.
The Chinese Americans.
New York: Crowell, c1980.
(j325.251 Me)

Perl, Lila.
To the Golden Mountain: The Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad.
New York: Benchmark Books, c2003.
(j331.7625 PerL)

Stepanchuk, Carol.
Exploring Chinatown: a Children's Guide to Chinese Culture.
Berkeley, CA : Pacific View Press, c2002.
(j305.8951 Step)

Journey to Gold Mountain cover art Takaki, Ronald.
Journey to Gold Mountain: The Chinese in 19th Century America.
New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1994.
(j973.0495 Taka)


Yee, Paul.
Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World.
New York: MacMillan, c1989.
(jF Yee)

Dragon's Gate cover artYep, Laurence.
Dragon's Gate.
New York: HarperCollins, c1993.
(jF Yep)



Journal of Wong-Ming Chung cover artYep, Laurence.
The Journal of Wong-Ming Chung: a Chinese Miner.
New York : Scholastic, c2000.
(jF Yep)




The Traitor cover artYep, Laurence.
The Traitor: Gold Mountain Chronicles, 1885.
New York: HarperCollins Pub1ishers, c2003.
(jF Yep)




Coolies cover artYin.
Coolies.
New York: Philomel Books, c2001.
(jF Yin)


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