Lunar New Year for Adults

A selection of books to celebrate the Lunar New Year and Year of the Dragon.

Updated February 9, 2024
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Beautiful country : a memoir
Wang, Qian Julie
Paper Book
In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.' Qian is just seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New York City are not paved with gold, but crushing fear and scarcity. Unable to...
High : a journey across the Himalaya, through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China
Fatland, Erika
Paper Book
***Shortlisted for the 2023 STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR*** ***A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2022*** "Enchanting" Independent "Fatland distinguishes herself from the stereotypes" Guardian ...
Jeremy Pang's simple family feasts
Pang, Jeremy
Paper Book
Easy Asian cooking for the whole family from School of Wok founder and star of the hit ITV show Jeremy Pang's Asian Kitchen AS SEEN ON TV COOKING Make dinnertime easy with over 80 Asian recipes from Jeremy Pang and his award-winning...
Simply Chinese : recipes from a chinese home kitchen
Lee, Suzie.
Paper Book
Simply Chinese is a sumptuous collection of classic and modern Chinese home-style recipes that can be made, with ease, in your own home kitchens. For Suzie Lee, food and Chinese home cooking has always been personal - in Chinese culture, food and family are intertwined. Suzie strives to...
Simply Chinese Feasts: Tasty Recipes for Friends and Family
Lee, Suzie.
Paper Book
Growing up, Suzie Lee was extremely fortunate in that her parents carried on the customs and traditions of Hong Kong in their family home in Northern Ireland, and now Suzie wants to do the same. In Simply Chinese Feasts, Suzie Lee pulls the reader up a seat to her table to explore the myriad Chinese...
We were dreamers : an immigrant superhero origin story
Liu, Simu
Paper Book
The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime. In this...

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