Author：Wing Chung Ng

Publisher：UBC Press

Publishing Year：1999

Call Number：F1089.5.V22N576

Introduction：Vancouver has one of the largest Chinese populations in North America. In The Chinese In Vancouver Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city’s Chinese in their search for identity between 1945 and 1980.

Ng juxtaposes the cultural positions of different generations of Chinese immigrants and their Canadian-born descendants and unveils an ongoing struggle between them over the definition of being Chinese. It is an engrossing account of cultural identity in a context of migration and settlement, where the influence of the native land and the appeal of the host society continue to impinge on the consciousness of the ethnic Chinese.

In writing this book, Ng shuns the tendency among some Canadian scholars to portray Chinese people as hapless victims of racial prejudice and discrimination and Chinese identity as a matter of Western cultural hegemony. Through not denying the reality of Anglo-Canadian racism, which was especially virulent in British Columbia, his account gives Chinese people their own voice, showing how the Chinese had much to say and to disagree among themselves about the meaning of being Chinese.

In a final chapter Ng goes beyond the Canadian context of his study to engage in a useful comparative discussion of the experiences of ethnic Chinese in various Southeast Asian countries and in the United States, inviting readers to rethink the meaning of ‘Chineseness’ in the diaspora. He closes with reflections on Vancouver’s Chinese community since 1980.

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。