Summary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROASummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRACao, Lan
Summary: "A mother-daughter memoir exploring loss, love, and healing, told in two alternating voices, from the critically acclaimed novelist and her teenage daughter"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CAOCao, Lan
Summary: "An epic tale of love, loyalty, and war from the acclaimed author of Monkey Bridge Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut, Monkey Bridge, won her wide renown for "connecting . .. the opposite realities of Vietnam and America" (Isabel Allende). In her triumphant new novel, Cao transports readers back to the war,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cao 2014Cao, Lan.
Summary: A memoir of a Vietnamese refugee. The narrator, Mai Nguyen, was 13 when a helicopter lifted her from Saigon. Scenes of war written in lyrical Oriental style alternate with reflections on America, such as the obsession with winning and the usurping of parental authority by teachers. By the author of Everything You Need to Know about Asian Americans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOSummary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001