2013 CALA Best Book Award Recipients
Academic Books
Chinese Chicago: race, transnational migration, and community since 1870 by Huping Lin. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2012. 9780804775588 Western literature in China and the translation of a nation by Shouhua Qi. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 9780230120877 A story of ruins: presence and absence in Chinese art and visual culture by Wu Hung London : Reaktion Books, 2012. 9781861898760
Adult Non-fiction
Moove ahead of the corporate herd by Tony Wong. lulu.com. 9781300263869
Fiction
Escape to Gold Mountain: a graphic history of the Chinese in North America / by David H.T. Wong. Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, c2012. 9781551524764 Juvenile Books
A faithful reading partner: a story from a Hakka village / by Suhua Huang. Author House. 9781468562675
Nest in springtime: a mandarin Chinese-English bilingual book of numbers / by Belle Yang. Candlewick. 9780763652791
Best Book Award Committee Members
Kachuen (Carol) Gee (Co-Chair) kachuen.gee@lehman.cuny.edu
Jianye He (Co-Chair)jhe@library.berkeley.edu
Wen Lien Lei (Michelle) Chan mchan@queenslibrary.org (2012-2014
Belinda Chiang Belinda.chiang@qc.cuny.edu (2012-2014)
Zhuo Fu zhuof@umkc.edu (2012-2014)
Lianglei Qi lqi@cheyney.edu (2012-2014)