China Boy

A Novel

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Paperback, 322 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1994 by Plume.

ISBN:
978-0-452-27158-6
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OCLC Number:
28634581
ASIN:
0452271584
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847145

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Kai Ting is the only American-born son of a Shanghai family that fled China during Mao's revolution. Growing up in a San Francisco multicultural, low-income neighborhood, Kai is caught between two worlds--embracing neither the Chinese nor the American way of life. After his mother's death, Kai is suddenly plunged into American culture by his stepmother, who tries to erase every vestige of China from the household.

Warm, funny and deeply moving, China Boy is a brilliantly rendered novel of family relationships, culture shock, and the perils of growing up in an America of sharp differences and shared humanity.

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Subjects

  • Chinese American families -- Fiction
  • Chinese Americans -- Fiction
  • Boys -- Fiction
  • San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction

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