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The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee
C.Y. Lee was born in Hunan, China. He graduated from the National Southwest Associated University in 1941, studied Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, and then transferred to Yale University where he received his M.A. in Drama in 1947. His first English novel, Flower Drum Song, was an instant New York Times Bestseller, and was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1957; it has been popular ever since.
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
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