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            | Good
                  Luck Life is the essential guide
                  for understanding, planning, and observing Chinese celebrations and traditions in
              a contemporary and easy way. If Good Luck
              Life weren’t
 a
              book, it would be a group of cousins at a dim sum table sharing
              old family secrets
 on how to make Chinese New Year’s cookies,
              what to buy a Chinese father-in-law on
 his 80th birthday, and how
              to assure a child’s success on the first day of school.
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                | Packed with practical information,
                        Good Luck Life contains a
 wealth of historical facts,
                    legends, foods, old village
                      recipes,
 and quick planning tools for celebrating Chinese
                      festivals
 and life’s special milestones.
 Written with
                        wit and warmth, and beautifully designed as an accessible
                        cultural reference guide, Good
                        Luck Life includes
 tips on dining with confidence at a traditional Chinese
                        table,
 gift-giving Chinese-style, and "do and don’t” lists
                      from wizened
 Auntie Lao who recounts ancient Chinese beliefs
                      and
 superstitions. This is your map for celebrating a good
                      luck life.
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 To learn about the many birthdays and traditions of the Chinese New Year on New America Radio, click here. To read ‘Good
                      Luck Life’ Helps Others to Interpret Chinese Traditions in
                      the Contra Costa Times on January 24, 2006, click
                      here.
                 To read Translating Traditions,
                    an interview by Sam Whiting which appeared in the San
                    Francisco Chronicle Magazine on January 23, 2005, click
                      here.  To read To those confused by
                      Chinese traditions, author offers 'Good Luck’ an article which appeared
                    in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper on February
                    4, 2005, click
                here. To read ”In Mama's Kitchen” Book
                      Review, click
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