The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang | 
The Island of Seven Cities
by Paul Chiasson | 
China
by John Keay | 
The Death of Mao
by James Palmer | 
Restless Empire
by Odd Arne Westad | 
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare
by John Toohey |
1492
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
The Evolution of Civilizations
by Carroll Quigley |
Love Stories
by Jonathan Ned Katz | 
Cotton
by Stephen Yafa |
Napoleon's Privates
by Tony Perrottet |
Catastrophe
by David Keys | 
A Treasury of Deception
by Michael Farquhar |
China
by John King Fairbank |
What the Butler Saw
by E. S. Turner |
Civilization
by Roger Osborne | 
The Silk Roads
by Peter Frankopan | 
China's Wings
by Gregory Crouch | 
America Is in the Heart
by Carlos Bulosan | 
For All the Tea in China
by Sarah Rose |
In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws, walking the racial tightrope between black and white, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.