The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a "terrifically readable, compelling" look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience (Publishers Weekly).

In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand-new social type: middle-class Chinese Americans.

As the Tape family's rags-to-riches story un...