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      By Lui, Elaine
       2014., Random House Canada Call No: Bio L952l    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Most people think Iœm exaggerating at first when I talk about the Chinese Squawking Chicken. But once they actually spend some time with her, they understand. They get it. Right away. Sheœs Chinese, she squawks like a chicken, she is totally nuts, and I am totally dependent on her.When Elaine Lui was growing up, her mother told her, Why do you need to prepare for the good things that happen? Theyœre good. They wonœt hurt you. My job is to prepare you for the hard times, and teach you how to avoid them, whenever possible.· Neither traditionally Eastern nor conventionally Western, the Squawking Chicken raised her daughter drawing on Chinese fortune-telling, feng shui blackmail, good old-fashioned ghost stories, and shame and embarrassment in equal measure. And despite years of chafing against her motherœs parenting style, Elaine came to recognize the hidden wisdomand immeasurable valuein her rather unorthodox upbringing.Listen to the Squawking Chicken lays bare the playbook of unusual advice and warnings used to teach Elaine about hard work (Miss Hong Kong is a whore·), humility (I should have given birth to a piece of barbecue pork·), love and friendship, family loyalty (Whereœs my money?·), style and deportment (Donœt be low classy·), finding oneœs own voice (Walk like an elephant, squawk like a chicken·) among other essentials. Along the way, Elaine poignantly reveals how her mother earned the nickname Tsiahng Gai· or squawking chicken· growing up in Hong Kong, enduring and rising from the ashes of her own hard times.Listen to the Squawking Chicken is a loving mother-daughter memoir that will have readers laughing out loud, gasping in shock, and reconsidering the honesty and guts it takes to be a parent.
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      By Hsu, Huan
       2015., Crown Publishers Call No: 305.8951 H874p   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle's semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu sets out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family's long march back home. Melding memoir, travelogue, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief offers an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the complicated events that have defined China over the past two hundred years and provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity"--
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      By Pao, Ellen K
       2017., General, Spiegel & Grau Call No: Bio P211r    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In 2015, Ellen K. Pao sued a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit exposed the tech world's toxic culture and its homogeneity. Her message overcame negative PR attacks that took aim at her professional conduct and her personal life, and she won widespread public support. Though Pao lost her suit, she revolutionized the conversation at tech offices, in the media, and around the world. The daughter of immigrants, Pao was taught that through hard work she could achieve her dreams. She earned multiple Ivy League degrees, worked at top startups, and in 2005 was recruited by Kleiner Perkins, arguably the world's leading venture capital firm at the time. In many ways, she did everything right, and yet she and other women and people of color were excluded from success - cut out of decisive meetings and email discussions, uninvited to CEO dinners and lavish networking trips, and had their work undercut or appropriated by male executives. It was time for a system reset. After Kleiner, Pao became CEO of reddit, where she took forceful action to change the status quo for the company and its product. She banned revenge porn and unauthorized nude photos - an action other large media sites later followed - and shut down parts of reddit over online harassment. Pao shines a light on troubling issues that plague today's workplace and lays out practical, inspiring, and achievable goals for a better future. The story of a whistleblower who aims to empower everyone struggling to be heard, in Silicon Valley and beyond. Ellen Pao graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she earned a Juris Doctor. After two years of working, Pao returned to attend Harvard Business School, where she received an MBA"--Provided by publisher.