Author ：Iris Chang

Publisher ：Penguin Group

Publishing Year ：2003

Call Number ：E184.C5 C456c

Introduction ：

This book explores the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents, by highlighting the stories of induviduals (activists, workers, entrpreneurs, politicians, scientists, writers and families), whose lives, struggles and victories have shaped and been shaped by history. The author offers not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but of what it is to be an American, which gives a fresh view through interweaving the transcontinential railroad construction, southern plantation after the Civil War, racist and exclusionary laws, racial tightrope between black and white and the influence in the way we think about racial and ethnic groups.