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 Her nonfiction books include the family memoir, ''The Girl from Purple Mountain''[http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/2001/news07_24.html], which was co-written with her father, the political scientist Winberg Chai. The book, which is narrated in alternating chapters by May-lee and her father, details her grandmother’s decision to be buried alone after helping her family to escape to America after the Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. ''The Girl from Purple Mountain'' was nominated for the National Book Award in nonfiction.
-Chai’s other memoir, ''Hapa Girl'' [http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/2001/news07_24.html], was a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and received an Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. It explores violent reactions towards her mixed-race family in a small Midwestern town in the 1980s.
+Chai’s other memoir, ''Hapa Girl'' [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1906_reg.html], was a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and received an Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. It explores violent reactions towards her mixed-race family in a small Midwestern town in the 1980s.
 Chai also published a short story and essay collection, ''Glamorous Asians''; translated the 1934 autobiography of Chinese author, ''Ba Jin''[];  and and co-authored a book about changes in contemporary Chinese society, ''China A to Z'' [http://www.uindy.edu/universitypress/].