Amy
Tan
The author's personal website includes information on Lyme disease
as well as material about her books.
www.amytan.net/
Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
A Brooklyn College English instructor's site examines the cultural
clash as well as themes and imagery found in the novel.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/tan.html
Bookreporter.com: Amy Tan
Several extensive interviews as well as a biography.
www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-tan-amy.asp
Internet Public Library, Online Literary
Criticism: Amy Tan
A list of websites with biographies, bibliographies and other
information.
www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=tan-155
The American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad
Ingenious entrepreneurs, brilliant engineers, armies of workers,
and Native Americans figure in the remarkable story of how a railroad
was built connecting California to the east.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr
Angel Island: Immigrant Journeys of Chinese-Americans
Photographs and interviews of Chinese-American immigrants detained
at Angel Island in San Francisco.
www.angel-island.com/history.html
Becoming American--The Chinese Experience
This site related to the PBS Bill Moyers documentary explores
the "struggle and triumph, progress and setbacks, discrimination
and assimilation" associated with the immigration of Chinese
to the U.S. The site provides biographical portraits, eyewitness
accounts, a timeline, a Chinese American history quiz, a viewer's
guide, and links to related resources.
www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/
Chinese Immigration...
An animated map showing the pattern of Chinese immigration to
the U.S. from 1848 to the 1920s.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/chinese_map.html
Chinese
Historical Society of America
The website of the oldest and largest organization dedicated to
the study, documentation and dissemination of Chinese-American
history.
www.chsa.org/
Mahjong
Information on the history of the game as well as how to play.
www.otal.umd.edu/~vg/amst205.F96/vj07/project3.html
Mahjong
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has information about
both the four-player game and the two-player "solitaire"
version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong
Play Mahjong Solitaire Online
www.freegames.ws/games/boardgames/mahjong/mahjong.htm
Chinese Cooking
Recipes are sorted by type of regional cuisine (Beijing, Sichuan,
etc.) and by cooking technique (stir frying, roasting, etc.)
www.china-on-site.com/cookingindex.php
Chinese
Nice Food
Step-by-step cooking from recipes in ten categories.
www.nicemeal.com
Chinese
Cuisine
Information about Chinese food, cooking techniques, equipment,
etc.
http://chinesefood.about.com
Chopstix
A British blog about Chinese food and cooking.
www.chopstix.com
China: Celebrations, Holidays and Customs
Learn about different Chinese celebrations and holidays by doing
different crafts. Make Zodiac bookmarks, shoe box dragons, lucky
red envelopes and more. Each craft has directions as well as background
information about the holiday or custom.
www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/china__dim_sum__celebratio.html
Mr. Dowling's Classroom: Chinese History
A history of the Great Wall of China, the Boxer Rebellion, Marco
Polo, Genghis Khan and more.
www.mrdowling.com/613chinesehistory.html
Mummies of China
In the late 1980s, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies were
discovered in China. This PBS Nova site has pictures!
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/taklamakan.html
The American Experience: Transcontinental
Railroad - Teacher's Guide
Suggested activites grouped into 4 categories: history, economics,
geography, and culture.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/tguide/index.html
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
This creative resource for teachers provides information about
a Library of Congress American Memory collection and ideas to
help students develop critical thinking skills through use of
primary sources.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html
Chinese Immigration...
A feature presentation for teachers on the history of Chinese
immigration to the U.S. from the Learning Page, The Library of
Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/alt/chinese.html
American
Lyme Disease Foundation
Dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease,
a disease which afflicts Amy Tan, and other tick-borne infections.
www.aldf.com/
Lyme Disease Association
The Lyme Disease Association is dedicated to Lyme disease education,
prevention, and raising research dollars.
www.lymediseaseassociation.org/
