Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2017) They're each looking for something—a

They're each looking for something—a shared past

Growing up the way I did

a dashing American emissary

and a number of downright eccentrics

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Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2017) They're each looking for something—aMany 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