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      China Boy

      by Gus Lee
      Published
      May 1991
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      400
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      Kai Ting is the only American-born son of an aristocratic Mandarin family that fled China in the wake on Mao's revolution. Growing up in San Francisco's ghetto, 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 new stepmother, a Philadelphia society woman 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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      Sep 1992 Signet ISBN13 9780451174345 ISBN10 0451174348
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      Feb 1994 Plume ISBN13 9780452271586 ISBN10 0452271584
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      First Edition May 1991 Dutton ISBN13 9780525249948 ISBN10 052524994X
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      Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated ISBN13 9780831766160 ISBN10 0831766166
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      Jan 1994 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9781417739264 ISBN10 1417739266
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      Jan 1994 Plume ISBN10 B00PHV81GM
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      Jan 1994 Penguin Publishing Group ISBN13 9781101664742 ISBN10 1101664746
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      May 1991 Random House Audio ISBN13 9780679402329 ISBN10 0679402322
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