Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2017) Growing up the way I

Growing up the way I did

Blending political reality with magic realism

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a dashing American emissary

Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up

Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2017) Growing up the way IMany books have been written about the Chinese in Southeast Asia, but very few, if any, are written specifically about the multi ethnic descendants of Chinese immigrants. Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix is not about the diaspora per se of Chinese in Southeast Asia but about the impact of intermarriage between Chinese immigrants and the natives, that is, the intermingling of blood and the offsprings from such unions the influence they wielded on the