Denise Chong

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Denise Chong


Born
in Vancouver, Canada
June 09, 1953

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Denise Chong is an award-winning author whose work portrays the lives of ordinary people caught in the eye of history. Best known for her family memoir, The Concubine’s Children; The Girl in the Picture about the napalm girl of the Vietnam War; and Egg on Mao, a story of love and defiance in China of 1989, she lives in Ottawa.

Average rating: 3.92 · 4,865 ratings · 425 reviews · 10 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Girl in the Picture: Th...

3.96 avg rating — 2,357 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions
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The Concubine's Children

3.91 avg rating — 2,261 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions
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Egg on Mao: The Story of an...

3.73 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Out of Darkness: Rumana Mon...

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Lives of the Family: Storie...

3.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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The Penguin Anthology of St...

3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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“Chinese were initially excluded from the draft; politicians on the west coast convinced the federal government that the risk of allowing the Chinese to go to war for the country was that they might then demand the right to vote.”
Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children

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