Kai Ting Books In Order
- China Boy (1991)
- Honor and Duty (1994)
Novels
- Tiger’s Tail (1995)
- No Physical Evidence (1998)
Non fiction
- Chasing Hepburn (2003)
- Courage (2006)
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Gus Lee Books Overview
China Boy
Warm, funny, and deeply moving, Gus Lee’s semi autobiographical account of growing up in a conflict ridden family, unable to fully embrace either American or Chinese culture, is an enthralling story of family relationships, the perils of boyhood, and the difficulty of being Chinese in 1950’s San Francisco.
Honor and Duty
As one of only two Asians at the U.S. Military Academy in the 1960s, Kai Ting must endure prejudice and preconceptions of his fellow cadets as the specter of Vietnam hangs over West Point. By the author of China Boy.BOMC Alt. Tour.
Tiger’s Tail
From the author of Honor and Duty and China Boy comes an ingenious thriller set in Korea in 1973 a gripping story of sorrow, corruption and redemption, with plenty of brawls to boot. From the Hardcover edition.
No Physical Evidence
Joshua Jin is an assistant district attorney whose life is in crisis after the death of his teenaged daughter and the breakup of his marriage. Now he has been handed an impossible case involving the savage rape of a thirteen year old girl who refuses to talk. The ex con charged with the crime was arrested on a hunch. The problem? There is No Physical Evidence. Jin’s orders are simple: pitch a sound bite, dump the case, and save his boss the Chinatown vote during a politically charged election year. But Jin refuses to drop the case; even after he discovers that the opposing attorney is a brilliant, high priced lawyer and his one time lover who wants nothing more than to crush Jin in the courtroom. First, however, he must win the confidence of Rachel Farr, his stone silent client, a distant, troubled teenager who trusts no one. But when Rachel recounts her brutal attack, Jin is spurred into action, throwing his heart and soul into a case that is far more explosive than he had ever imagined.
Chasing Hepburn
Chasing Hepburn is the story of the Lee family a saga spanning four generations, two continents, and a century and a half of Chinese history. In the masterful hands of acclaimed author Gus Lee, his ancestors stories spring vividly to life in a memoir with all the richness of great fiction. From the time of her birth in 1906 it was expected that Gus Lee’s mother, Tzu Da tsien, would become an elegant bride for a wealthy provincial man. But she was shunted onto a less certain path by age three, when her warmhearted father rescued her from her foot binding ceremony in response to her terrified screams. This dramatic rejection of tradition was the first of many clashes that would lock the family in a constant struggle between Chinese customs and modern ways. Later, with the Chinese countryside in the grip of civil war, the Tzu family moved to Shanghai, seeking financial stability. There Da tsien met Lee Zee Zee, the dashing son of the Tzus landlord, who lived across the street. With their patriarch succumbing to opium addiction, Zee Zee s family was on the brink of ruin, and Da tsien s mother was working hard to secure her big footed daughter s marriage to a wealthy older man. But not even the protests of both families could keep the lovers apart, and these two socially displaced clans were reluctantly united. Over the course of their courtship and marriage, Zee Zee and Da tsien would encounter the most important movements and figures of the times, including underworld gangsters, Communist students and workers, revolutionary armies, Christian missionaries, and legions of invading Japanese soldiers. Zee Zee became an ardent anti Maoist and an ally of the highest ranking leaders in the Chinese Nationalist movement. But his flights from tradition took him away from his young family first into Chiang Kai shek s air force and later to America in search of his idol, Katharine Hepburn. Faced with this abandonment and with the chaos of the Japanese occupation, Da tsien would rely on all of her resources, traditional and modern faith, superstition, tremendous courage, and her strong feet in an attempt to preserve her family. Gus Lee takes us straight into the heart of twentieth century Chinese society, offering a clear eyed yet compassionate view of the forces that repeatedly tore apart and reconfigured the lives of his parents and their contemporaries. He moves deftly from recounting intimate household conversations to discussing major historical events, and the resulting story is by turns comic, harrowing, heroic, and tragic. For most of her life, Da tsien prayed for a son who would honor his family and respect his Chinese heritage. In this enthralling tribute, Gus Lee lovingly accomplishes both.
Courage
In Courage, Gus Lee captures the essential component of leadership in measurable behaviors. Using actual stories from Whirlpool, Kaiser Permanente, IntegWare, WorldCom and other organizations, Lee shows how highly successful executives face and overcome their fears to develop moral intelligence. These real world examples offer practical lessons for rooting out unethical practices and behaviors by Assessing them for rightness and integrity Addressing moral failures Following through with dialogue and direct action
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