A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

A tour-de-force new work by rising indie comics star Gene Yang. 'American Born Chinese' maps the adolescent Chinese-American experience through three separate but interwoven stories.

'A brilliant memoir...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire; its crises are the crises of a heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it...Maxine Hong Kingston writes with bitter and relentless love. Her voice, now, is as clear as the voice of Ts'ai

Olivia is only 5 years old when Kwan, her 17 year-old half sister arrives from China and turns her world upside down. Olivia wants only to lead a normal American life, but her childhood betrayal of Kwan has lasting consequences.

A stunning reissue of the international bestseller, from the much-loved author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'.

Unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists

A fun and lively story about growing up Asian American

It is 1968, the dawn of ethnicity, and though some nice Chinese girls are turning more Chinese, teenaged Mona Chan is turning Jewish, much to her parents' chagrin.

A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club', 'The Kitchen God's Wife' and 'The Hundred Secret Senses'.

16-year-old Emily is one of three Asian students at her high school in Richmond, Virginia and the only child of protective parents. She loves her parents and has always strived to please them, but her interest in a sexy new student, her passion for art, force Emily to create a web of lies, one that traps her as tightly as her circumstances.

An unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution was blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. This is a story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the political events in China and Hong Kong.

Divided into four sections - Fire , Paper , Water and Earth , this title is neither fiction, nor autobiography nor memoir, but a unique form of Chinese talk-story in which real and imagined worlds intrude upon and enrich each other, built upon stories of war.

Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at fifteen, he attempts to claim America as his homebase, and his personal history is interwoven with dreams, stories, and letters of his family's life in America.

Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Yu-i led a life marked by a series of rebellions that changed the course of her life. Chang tells her great aunt's story, the saga of a woman born in Shanghai at the turn of the century.

Set in China in 1900s, this book presents the story of a young girl who defied tradition by refusing to have her feet bound and in doing so changed the course of her life forever.

Adeline Yen Mah, whose autobiography, Falling Leaves , is an international bestseller, here interweaves her own experiences with her views on Chinese thought and wisdom to create a personal guide for Western readers.

In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenceless city, but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300000 Chinese civilians.

SAP The memoirs of a young woman relate how she and her fmaily manage to keep their Chinese heritage alive while adapting to the American way of life.

This book draws on Lee's own notes, letters, diaries and training logs to present the full extent of his training methods. They include nutrition, aerobics, isometrics, stretching, and weight training.