Author：Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic

Publisher：The New Press

Publishing Year：2005

Call Number：E184.C5K98

Introduction：The definitive portrait of the experience in the United State. Chinese America charts 150 years of American history from the Chinese frontiersmen of the Wild West to the high-teach transnationals of today. In this magisterial, panoramic narrative, based on years of research and reporting across the United states and Asia, Kwong and Miscevic take us inside nineteenth-century mining camps, Chinese American night clubs of the 1930s and 1940s, and today’s booming “ethnoburbs”, among other places. Hailed by Margaret Fung, the executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, as “quite simply, the best book about the history of exclusion and injustice against Chinese immigrants and the role of Chinese Americans today”, Chinese America is a fascinating and entirely original examination of an immigrant story too often rendered as a simple tale of triumph over adversity.