Author：Gloria Heyung Chun

Publisher ：Rutgers University Press

Publishing Year：2000

Call Number：E184.C5C559

Introduction：” We were as American as can be”, states Jadin Wong in recalling the days when she used to dance at a San Francisco nightclub during the 1940s. Wong belonged to an all-Chinese chorus line at a time when all East Asians were called ” Orientals”. In this context, then, what did it mean for Wong, an American-born Chinese, to say that she thought of herself as an “American’? Of Orphans and Warriors explores the social and cultural history of largely urban. American-born Chinese from the 1930s through the 1990s, focusing primarily on those living in California. Chun thus open a window onto the ways in which these Americans born of Chinese ancestry negotiated their identity over a half century.