CHSSC Book Store

Bitter Roots: A Gum Saan Odyssey

By Arthur W. Chung, M.D.

"It is 1875. With boundless hope and bright dreams, a young Chinese couple board a trans-Pacific steamship to meet their destiny. This is their story..and California's."

"Arthur Chung has written a loving and very informative tale about his family's Chinese American experience. He has added a new piece to the great quilt that is American history."

- Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain

6" x 9" Hardcover, 157 pages, 2006
$18.00
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The Breath of a Wok

By Grace Young and Alan Richardson

Unlocking the spirit of Chinese wok cooking through recipes and lore

"Grace Young takes us into the heart of wok cooking--from the master cooks of China to the culinary luminaries of the Unite States. We're privileged to hear the age-old secret of seasoning a wok and the stories behind family recipes. This is a cookbook that sizzles, sings, and ultimately has you sighing with pleasure"

- Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

10.5" x 8" Hardcover, 240 pages, 2004
$35.00
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California's Chinese Heritage: History of
A Legacy of Places

By Thomas A. McDannold

"This book is a systematic compilation of places within California that have been of importance to the Chinese. The author provides a county-by-county history and geography of sites from the mid 1800s to the present. This book is a travel guide as well as a useful historical companion.

This book is out of print.

8.5" x 11" Paperback, 210 pages, 2000
$28.00
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Chicken Coop Chinaman:The Search for the Ideal Father
and
The Year of the Dragon: The Disintegration of
the Chinese American Family

Two Plays By Frank Chin

"There can be no question...about the ability of the gifted, passionate, funny Mr. Chin; his characters are playable, complex and always convincing, and the words they speak are always theirs and theirs alone."

- The New Yorker

5.5" x 8.5" Paperback, 142 pages, third printing 1990
$10.00
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Chinese American Names

By Emma Woo Louie

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name woudl smell as sweet"

- William Shakespeare

"The most important anchorage to our self-identity throughout life remains our own name"

- Gordon Allport, author of Pattern and Growth in Personality

6" x 9" Hardcover, 230 pages, 1998
$32.00
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The Chinese in America: A History
from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium

Edited by Susie Lan Cassel

This new collection of essays demonstrated how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Volume editor Susie Lan Cassel relates how the well-publicized accusations of espionage against scientist Wen Ho Lee at the nuclear facility at Los Alamos can be understood as part of an ongoing systemic and isntitutionalized racism in American society. Chinese Americans have been courted as "model workers" by American business, but are also still continually perceived as perpetual foreigners. This book is a valuable resource on the Asian immigrant experience for researchers and students in Chinese American studies, Asian American history, immigration studies, and American history.

6" x 9" Paperback, 463 pages, 2002
$15.00
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Down by the Station: Los Angeles Chinatown 1880-1933

By Roberta S. Greenwood

Down by the Station provdes detailed analysis and historic photographs to support a major archaeological excavation within Los Angeles' Old Chinatown. Greenwood's research provides insight into the cultural life of the community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

9" x 11.5" Hardcover, 208 pages, 1996
$40.00
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The Dragon Legacy

A Novel by Scott C. S. Stone

The Dragon Legacy explores the plight of the early Chinese immigrants with a sensitivity and style that makes their history immediate, their problems timely and telling.

Scott C. S. Stone has been an author, correspondent and Navy officer. He is the author of thirteen other books, with multiple printings and distribution in thirty-five countries. His articles have been carried by the New York Times New Service, Reuters, UPI and other international magazines and newspapers. Stone lives and works in Hawaii, where he heads the Taipan Group, Ltd., a consortium of writers and photographers.

7" x 9" Hardcover, 226 pages, 1989
$20.00
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Driven Out: The Forgotten
War Against Chinese Americans

By Jean Pfaelzer

There was brutal and systematic "ethnic cleansing" of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest during the Gold Rush era of the 19th Century. It is a shocking, unsettling, and virtually unexplored chapter of American history. In this eye-opening, disturbing, and important book, Jean Pfaelzer sheds a harsh light on America's past while addressing profound issues, illegal round-ups, secret detentions, and racial violence that have deep resonance today.

Jean Pfaelzer is a professor of English and American Studies at the University of Delaware.

"Thanks to this gripping narrataive, Chinese immigrants to the Far West--so long overlooked--now stand front and center in the saga of the struggle for civil rights in these United States."

- Franklin Odo, author of The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience.

6" x 9" Hardcover, 400 pages, 2007
$25.00
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Duty and Honor: A Tribute to
Chinese American World War II Veterans of
Southern California

Edited by Marjorie Lee of UCLA Asian American Studies Center

"Because I'm an American...They called, so I had to go...It seemed like the right thing to do...I wanted to help China...It gave me a chance to see the world...It was... My Duty."

These are just some ofo the voices you will hear, and faces your will see..in this commemorative tribute to Chinese American World War II veterans and patriotic civilians of Southern California.

9" x 11" Hardcover, 250 pages, 1998
$36.00, $32 for CHSSC members
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Eternal River: Volume I The Early Years

By Carolyn Wing Greenlee

"Eternal River is the family histories of Tom and Kathleen Wing revealed in a unique and compelling format. Overcoming adversities within Confucian culture, and the era when Chinese Americans were not welcome in white neighborhoods, Tom and Kathleen forged their way with ingenuity and grit, and the support of loyal friends who opened doors for them that society had locked. This book is a celebration of their endurance, creative contributions to American life, and the individuals who joined them along the way."

6" x 9" Paperback, 235 pages, 2006
$15.00
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Feng Shui: Dos and Taboos

By Angi Ma Wong

"The hottest design trend is actually thousands of years old. Discover what Donald Trump, Prince Charles, Boy George and other high-profile celebrities and moguls already know: by activating the directions that govern health, career, relationships, marriage, business, harmony, and prosperity, you can achieve the success and life you want."

6" x 9" Paperback, 160 pages, 2000
$15.00
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Feng Shui: Room-by-Room Home Design Kit

By Angi Ma Wong, author of Feng Shui Dos and Taboos

The kit includes the Practical Feng Shui chart, liquid-filled compass and easy Feng Shui for Your Home.

"Brilliant...cool...easiest feng shui tool I've ever seen or used...the best!"

- Most commonly-heard raves at California Gift Show, Phoenix OASIS Gift Show, International Feng Shui Conference, INATS East/INATS West.

Pacific Heritage Books, 2002
$10.00
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Feng Shui: Room-by-Room Home Design Kit

By Angi Ma Wong, author of Feng Shui Dos and Taboos

The kit includes the Practical Feng Shui chart, liquid-filled compass and Feng Shui at Your Desk and Office.

"Whether you work out of your home on the kitchen table or are ensconced behind a rosewood desk in a corporate office, your work environment can critically influence your effectiveness, health, and wealth. Align your energy with that of nature and the universe to create a stress-free, harmonious, balanced, and prosperous workplace."

Pacific Heritage Books, 1999
$10.00
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Fish Head Soup and Other Plays

By Philip Kan Gotanda

"Exploring the relationships among the Issei (first generation), Nisei (second generation), and sansei (third generation), playright Philip Kan Gotanda has crafted four powerful and sensitive dramas. Japanese American family life is at the heart of the plays, from elder traditionalists and Nisei still troubled by the message of the wartime camps, to women seeking new roles and brash youtoh seizing opportunities in a larger society. The four plays included are Song for a Nisei Fisherman, Fish Head Soup, The Wash, and Yankee Dawg You Die."

5.5" x 8.5" Paperback, 258 pages, 1991, 1995
$20.00
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From One Root Many Flowers

By Virginia C. Li

From the Preface

"From historic roots deeply embedded in a land far away, to ones that have been uprooted and replanted again, I am fortunate to know firsthand how brave, new lives can blossom like beautiful flowers in another land. As the daughter of Chinese dignitaries, a transplanted refugee, mother, university professor, and international consultant, I have seen the human spirit of four generations of Chinese and then Americans attain triumph from despair and disappointment. This is a story of how two distinct worlds and proud cultures have come to work together, to offer a glimpse of hope and future for humankind."

6" x 9" Hardcover, 351 pages, 2003
$27.00
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Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives

By James M. Freeman

"The first-person narratives in this book provide a glimpse into the personal lives of fourteen Vietnamese-Americans who were devastated by war and the refugee experience but who were able to create new lives in a new cultural environment."

"The narratives that tell the ravages of war and of adjustments to life in America are affecting in their powerful detail. The stories may not make literature, but they are records of great courage in this violent century."
- New York Times Book Review

5.5" x 8.5" Paperback, 446 pages, 1989
$15.00
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Linking Our Lives:
Chinese American Women of Los Angeles

A joint project of the
Asian American Studies Center
University of California at Los Angeles
and
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

"It would be easy for Chinese American women to have disappeared --without visas and without a history. Linking Our Lives is a valuable gathering of the scholarship and the oral histories of women who, in the retrieving of the past, find identity, a binding sisterhood, and roots as pioneers right here in Los Angeles. We will want to hand this book on to our daughters as well as to strangers."
- Maxine Hong Kingston

6" x 9" Paperback, 113 pages, 1984, 1992
$12.00, $10 for CHSSC members
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The Lonely Queue

The Forgotten History of the Courageous Chinese Americans in Los Angeles

By Icy Smith

Chinese translation by Emily Wang

This book documents the 150-year history of Chinese Americans in the greater Los Angeles area. It features bilingual text with hundreds of vintage photographs and personal memories depicting the struggle of Chinese Americans making America their home. The Lonely Queue won the 2002 Clarion Award in the non-fiction book category.

English and Chinese text, 2001

9" x 12" Hardcover, 208 pages, 210 vintage photographs
$40.00, $32 for CHSSC members
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Margins and Mainstreams:
Asians in American History and Culture

By Gary Y. Okihiro, Director of Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University

"In a thoughtful and stimulating contribution to the current debate about the meaning to the larger society of multiculturalism, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian Americans in American history and culture. In six provocative and engaging essays he examines the Asian American experience from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture."

5.5" x 8.5" Paperback, 175 pages, 1994
$15.00
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Origins and Destinations:
41 Essays on Chinese America

A Joint Project of

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
and UCLA Asian American Studies Center

This book presents an engaging, and oftentimes moving, expression of the Chinese American experience, which should be of considerable interest to the general reader. It is hoped that this collection of essays from the first conference on Chinese Americans in twelve years will be a valuable resource for scholar and layperson alike. The diversity of subject, from history into political empowerment, education, literature, performing arts, business, and transformation, mirrors the rapid growth and developing complexity of the Chinese American community itself.

6" x 9" Paperback, 507 pages, 1994
$25.00, $20 for CHSSC members
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Phoenix Eyes
and Other Stories

By Russell Charles Leong, editor of Amerisia Journal

"From struggling war refugees to Buddhist monks, intellectuals to sex workers, Russell Charles Leong's characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans. A young teenager, sold into prostitution to finance her brothers' education, saves her hair trimmings--the one part of her body that is under her own control--to burn once a year in a temple ritual. A documentary film producer, raised in a noisy Hong Kong family, marvels at the popular image of Asian Americans as a silenced minority. Traditional Chinese families struggle to come to terms with gay children and AIDS."

6" x 9" Paperback, 172 pages, 2000
$15.00
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Revisiting East Adams

Directed by Jenny Cho
Written and Produced by Jenny Cho and William Gow

"This film captures the history of a Chinese American community in downtown Los Angeles from the1930s to 1950s. During this period, the intersection of East Adams and San Pedro Street was home to a vibrant Chinese American community that preserved Chinese culture through social and religious organizations such as the Chinese Presbyterian Church, Chinese schools and various youth groups East Adams was also a self-sustaining community whose residents earned a living by working at local businesses such as the City Market on 9th street, the CFO gas station, and the Kwong Hing Lung grocery store. The stories of these former Chinese residents expand our understnading of the history of Los Angeles."

DVD and VHS, 26 minutes, 40 seconds
$15.00 DVD, $12.00 VHS, $12 DVD and $10 VHS for CHSSC members
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Son of South Mountain & Dust

By Thomas W. Wing & Carolyn Wing Greenlee

This is the autobiography of Thomas W. Wing, a herbologist and chiropractic doctor for nearly forty years while actively engaging in hobbies which brought about benefits for others. In the 1950s, he bent UHF waves aroung the mountain for emergency communications and pioneered the doctor beeper. In the new millennium, he is still inventing, still writing, still trying to help people live better lives.

7" x 10" Hardcover and Paperback, 150 pages, 2001
$20 Hardcover, $15 Paperback
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Survival in the Killing Fields

By Haing Ngor with Roger Warner

"Here, in a gripping memoir of life under the communist Khmer Rouge regime, Ngor reveals the country's descent into a hell beyond our imaginings: a world of war slaves and senseless brutality, where family life simply ceases to be. But with the pain he also gives us hope and an illuminating example of how the best sort of love can actually be strengthened through the shared experience of a life-threatening ordeal. An eyewitness account of the real killing fields by an extraordinary survivor, this book is both a reminder of the horrors of war and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit."

5" x 8" Paperback, 515 pages, 1987
$14.00
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Sweet Bamboo: A Saga of a Chinese American Family

By Louise Leung Larson

This is the story of the Tom Leung family. It is a collection of memories of a family brought up amidst conflicting Chinese and American cultures.

"I found Sweet Bamboo extremely moving. It is a gem of many facets. It sheds light not only on the history of Chinese Americans, but on a very important era of China's own history."
- Frank Ching, author and journalist

6" x 9" Paperback, 215 pages, 1989
$13.00, $10 for CHSSC members
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Thousand Pieces of Gold

By Ruthanne Lum McCunn

"This is a western, but very different from the gunslinging frontier sagas. Lalu Nathoy, a Chinese pioneer woman, comes to life and transfixes the reader with her story of struggle and survival as a woman--and slave--in China and the American West... Fast-paced and entertaining--packed with adventure, drama, and inspiration."
- San Francisco Chronicle

5" x 8" Paperback, 308 pages, 1981
$20.00
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Wong Ho Leun: An American Chinatown

Edited and published by
The Great Basin Foundation, San Diego

For more than a century, the Chinese Pioneers have been written out of the history of the United States, either by exaggerated racial slander or just plain omission. The editors of this book hope to bridge a chasm widened by decades of misunderstanding, racial abuse, and neglect.

8" x 11" Paperback, 405 pages
$72.00, $50 for CHSSC members
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The Year of the Ox: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac

Written by Oliver Chin and illustrated by Jeremiah Alcorn

This is a children's book.

2009 is the Year of the Ox! Olivia is a young ox eager to make her mark in the world. But growing up is challenging, as Olivia learns that helping sometimes is harder than it looks. But when her friend Mei gets in trouble, can Olivia rescue her adopted sister and her reputation at the same time?

Olivia's rousing quest to unearth her true nature will delight children and adults alike. Fourth in the annual series Tales from the Chinese Zodiac, The Year of the Ox features all the charismatic animals of the Chinese lunar calendar and shows how fun it is to "have a cow!"

10" x 10" Hardcover, 6 pages, 2008
$15.00
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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White

By Frank H. Wu, Associate Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law

"Asian Americans can be agents of our own destinies, insisting that we are ourselves and refusing to be either black or white."- Frank H. Wu

"Frank Wu has written a book that can be rightfully compared to W.E.B. Dubois's Souls of Black Folk a century ago...Anyone interested in the issues of our increasing diversity - whether Asian American or not - should want to finish it in a single sitting."
- Don T. Nakanishi, former director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center

6" x 9" Hardcover, 397 pages, 2002
$26.00
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