Author：Hyung-Chan Kim

Publisher：Greenwood Press

Publishing Year：1999

Call Number：E184.A75D614

Introduction：Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American society. This reference work celebrates the contributions of 166 distinguished Asian Americans. Most people profiled are not featured in any other biographical dictionary on noted Asian Americans. The Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, South Asian Americans(from India and Pakistan), and Southeast Asian Americans(from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) profiled in this work represent more than 75 fields of endeavor. From historical figures to figure skater Michelle Kwan, this work features both prominent and less familiar individuals who have made significant contributions in their fields. A number of the contemporary subjects have given exclusive interviews for this work.

All biographies have been written by experts in their ethnic fields. Those profiled range widely from distinguished scientists and Nobel Prize winners to sports stars, from actors to activists, from politicians to business leaders, from artists to literary luminaries. All are role models for young men and women, and many have overcome difficult odds to succeed. These colorfully written, substantive biographies detail their subjects’ goals, struggles, and commitments to success and to their ethnic communities. More than forty portraits accompany the biographies and each biography concludes with a list of suggested reading for further research. Appendices organizing the biographies by ethnic group and field of professional endeavor make searching easy. This is the most current biographical dictionary on Asian Americans and is ideal for student research.

Author: Judy Yung

Publisher ：University of California Press

Publishing Year：1995

Call Number：F869.S39Y94

Introduction: As a “second-generation Chinese American,  born and raised in San Francisco”,  Judy Yung has heard and experienced all the unfairness towards Chinese, especially women in San Francisco in her childhood.  Starting from the difficulties in her mother and grandmother’s immigration, she began to collect stories of Chinese women in the U.S. and eventually completed this book describing Chinese females in San Francisco during the first half of twentieth century.  She used the metaphor of giving up the “crippling custom of footbinding” in the title to indicate the courage and action of Chinese women to change their status and life in San Francisco, and thus changes their stereotype of simply being passive victims.  As Vicki L. Ruiz says, ” It represents a major contribution to research in U.S. women’s history.”  This book is highly valuable both in terms of scholarly history research and literary value.

Author: Bonner

Publisher: Associated University Presses

Year: 1997

Call Number: F128.9.C5B716

Introduction: This study recovers the history of immigrants who left scant records of their struggle to survive in a society in which the Chinese were reviled as dangerous,opium-soaked, and unassimilable. It is based on about 3000 contemporary newspaper and magazine articles that reflect the prejudices of the times, a major element shaping the history of the Chinese in New York.

作者：邝治中

出版社：中华书局

年份：1989

索书号：F128.68.C47K98

介绍：历来，世界上几个大城市的唐人街，都予人一种神秘、保守而又充满暴力的印象，许多中外电影都围绕着这个印象来制作一幕幕血腥的帮会仇杀场面。对唐人街的片面表象描述的故事、文章，可说比比皆是。然而本书作者，则从全面角度，深入探究最具代表性的美国唐人街的社会实质。他以多年生活在华人社区的经历和细心的观察为基础，加上大量的统计分析、普查资料及访问，完成此书。

Author : Roger Daniels

Publisher : University of Washington Press

Year : 1988

Call Number : E184.O6D186

Introduction : In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1980s, Daniels presents a basic history comprising the political and socioeconomic background of Chinese and Japanese but between Asian and European immigration experiences, clarifying the integral role of Asians in American history. The book is orgarnized topically and chronologically, beginning with the emigration of each ethnic group and concluding with an epilogue that looks to the future from the perspective of the last two decades of Chinese and Japanese American history. Included in this survey are discussions of the reasons for emigration; the fate of the first-generation immigrants; the reception of immigrants by United States goverment and its people;the growth of immigrant communities; the effects of discriminatory legislation the impact of WWII and the succeeding Cold War era on Chinese and Japanese Americans during the last twenty years.