Mingmei Yip, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $14 (421p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2014-1
In this disappointing courtesan novel, a 98-year-old Chinese emigre woman in present-day San Francisco reviews her youth in early 20th-century China, where she was a ming ji, or ""prestigious prostitute."" Falsely accused of rape and murder, Xiang...
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Mingmei Yip, Author Tuttle Publishing $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8048-3589-3
One way to commemorate the Chinese New Year would be to share Chinese Children's Favorite Stories by Mingmei Yip. Traditional tales such as ""The Monkey King"" sit alongside perhaps lesser known stories like ""The Mouse Bride,"" which explains why...
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Mingmei Yip, Kensington, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-4182-5
Yip's lively new novel manages to be at once modern and traditional. Struggling scribe Lily Lin is writing her Chinese-American family saga, stuck in a dead-end relationship with a married man, and employed as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant in...
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Mingmei Yip. Kensington, $15 trade paper (358p) ISBN 978-0-7582-7353-6
Yip (Peach Blossom Pavilion) introduces 19-year-old nightclub chanteuse Camilla, plucked from an orphanage by a Shanghai mob boss and trained as a spy to take down his rival, Master Lung of the Flying Dragons. While the prose tends to be overwritten
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