Editor ：Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai

Publisher ：University of California Press

Publishing Year ：2006

Call Number ：E184.C5 C539c

Introduction ：

The history of Chinese in American can be traced back to as early as the nineteenth century. The first scholarly book on Chinese American history came out in 1909. However, Chinese Americans are rarely asked to say their own feelings and the early books were usually based on materials written in English by non-Chinese. In the early days, they are even not paid attention to indeed. To give the real voices from Chinese American, this book provides and illustrates a collection of various primary documents and stories showing how Chinese Americans think about themselves, many of which have never been published before or have been translated in English for the first time. From early Chinese immigration, modenization in the exclusion period, and the Cold War era, the book challenged the stereotype of Chinese Americans as passive victims and revertsthe real image of them representing people diverse in terms of gender, background, generation, and geogoraphic affiliation.