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1. 792-M - A Shadow of Spring is the story of a young Oriental girl's search for her true identity as a woman and as a human being. Jasmine Tu, daughter of a wealthy member of Chinese officialdom who fled to Hong Kong when the Communists took over in China in the later 1940's, leaves her homeland and her family to go to America at the age of twenty-one.

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2. 792-R - This book features two core essays in English. In "A Collection's Riches," Duchesne uses the objects in the collection to document the history and significance of a New York Cantonese opera association over six decades. Through her in-depth description, the collection gives voice to a group of amateur musicians, who carried out and developed an artistic tradition of the Chinese diaspora. The essay charts a little-known territory in the history of Chinese America, and maps out an important cultural and social legacy.

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3. 792-Y - Cantonese Opera experienced drastic changes during the past century. The influence of political upheaval in China in the late 19th century, the introduction of Western performing arts, the urban economic development of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau, the keen competition among opera troupes shpaed the course of this traditional art form. In this exhibition, we examine the development of Cantonese Opera over the past century.

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4. 792.7-D - Forbidden City, USA captures the magic and glamour of a Chinese American nightclub scene that peaked in San Francisco during World War II. Previously unpublished personal stories, along with over four hundred stunning images and rare artifacts, are presented in this insightful chronicle of Asian American performers who defied racial and cultural barriers to pursue their showbiz dreams.

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5. 792.802 - Mao's Last Dancer is an autobiography written by Chinese-Australian author Li Cunxin and first published in 2003. It recounts his journey from a young, impoverished village boy destined to labor in the fields of China to a world-famous professional dancer.

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6. 793-F - A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician. Who was Long Tack Sam? He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur. A theater owner. A world traveler. An East-West ambassador. A mentor to Orson Welles. He was considered the greatest act in the history of vaudeville. In this gorgeous graphic memoir, his great-granddaughter, the artist and filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming, resurrects his fascinating life for the rest of the world. It's an exhilarating testament to a forgotten man. And every picture is true.

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7. 793-F - A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician. Who was Long Tack Sam? He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur. A theater owner. A world traveler. An East-West ambassador. A mentor to Orson Welles. He was considered the greatest act in the history of vaudeville. In this gorgeous graphic memoir, his great-granddaughter, the artist and filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming, resurrects his fascinating life for the rest of the world. It's an exhilarating testament to a forgotten man. And every picture is true.

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8. 796-C - The event for which this books was published benefitted the fundraising campaign to develop a National Chinese American Museum and Learning Center.

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9. 800-L - Seventeen-year-old Chinese girl disguises herself as a boy and accompanies her brother and countrymen who ship out from Canton to the gold fields of California in 1850.

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10. 800-L - Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams.Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America and for Shirley as well, on the ball field and off, America becomes the land of opportunity

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11. 800-L - A sunny novel about a pair of young Chinese who ship out from Canton to the gold fields of California in 1850. American John Carnahan signs up a shipload of Chinese to work some stakes following a famine in China. Among them are Mai Mai, seventeen, who disguises herself as a boy and her future adoptive ""brother More"" Longevity, who is taught to shoot from the hip. Carnahan uses Mai Mai as his houseboy, discovers (before Longevity does) that she is a girl and falls in love with her. The youngsters have independent experiences for a time, turn up a rich gold strike in their attempt to bury Longevity's father and travel on to San Francisco with its incipient Chinatown.

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12. 800-M - Based on real characters in the 1800s, Hoi, a young Chinese immigrant, was left to his own devices after the Continental Railroad was finished. With the help of Spanish Louis, he turned his creativity into success by way of good-old American pies. Initially published in 1983 as the Chinese American answer to Paul Bunyan.

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13. 801-B - This book is a collection of poems by Mei Berssenbrugge, a Chinese American who was brought up in the U.S. and got her MFA at Columbia.

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14. 801-C - A collection of poetry from Fay Chiang.

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15. 801-C - A collection of poetry from Fay Chiang.

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16. 801-C - Miwa's Song, a collecction of poems by Fay Chiang.

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17. 801-C - Poems and drawings by Diana Chang.

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18. 801-C - Poems and drawings by Diana Chang.

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19. 801-C - This book is a collection of songs that dance across the terrain of emotional nuance and postmodern experimentation. Marilyn Chin tells the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwarted interracial love, and of social injustice.

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20. 801-C - This book is a collection of songs that dance across the terrain of emotional nuance and postmodern experimentation. Marilyn Chin tells the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwarted interracial love, and of social injustice.

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