Ebook: A Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream

Prologue; Chapter 1; Mr. Robinson; Chapter 2; A Guide to Punctuation; Chapter 3; Lius in the News; Chapter 4; Counterfactual; Chapter 5; The Iron Chink; Chapter 6; Fidelity, Or, the Impossibility of Translating a Poem; Chapter 7; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; For Further Reading; Credits; Index.;From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed may displace America - at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American in this moment? And how does exploring that question alter our notions of just what an American is and will be?In many ways, Chinese Americans today are exemplars of the American Dream: dur.