- History, Nonfiction, Sociology, Chinese Americans
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.
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Earnest, epic, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Iris Chang, Iris Chang
- First published
- April 28, 2003
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Penguin (Non-Classics), Viking Adult
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780142004173
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Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. - Wikipedia
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