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Esteemed Columbia University historian Mae Ngai, whose first book (on illegal immigration of an earlier time) Impossible Subjects received the AHA Littleton-Griswold Prize and the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book on any topic in American history, focuses more on the Chinese American immigrant experience in her new book, The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). "A thorough-going look at the historical record of early Chinese immigration to San Francisco unearths the heartening story of one rags-to-riches family. Ngai characterizes her work as history, situating the union of two young working people in San Francisco in 1875 within a larger frame of Chinese immigration, which had been encouraged by the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century, attracting impoverished men, mostly from the Guangdong Province ... Ngai fashions a terrifically readable, compelling work about the little-known middle-class in the Chinese immigrant experience." - Publishers Weekly.
