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.

Editor ：Arif Dirlik

Publisher ：Rowman & Littlefield publishers, Inc.

Year ：2001

Call Number ：E184.C5 C539

Brief Introduction ：This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in nineteenth-century America through a collection of memoirs, documents, and historical anlyses from the other Western states – from the Cascades to the Great Plains. The editer, Arif Dirlik, who is a professo of history at the University of Oregon, has chosen works that enlarge out understanding of the Chinese presence in the West and the development of Chinese culture formations on the frontier. This book provides insights not only into frontier society in the United States, but also into U.S.-Chinese relations of the time. This volume will be invalubale for all readers interested in China, Western history and history of Asian America.

Author：Him Mark Lai

Publisher ：AltaMira Press

Publishing Year ：2004

Call Number ：E184.C5 B398

Introduction ：

This book discusses the historical and cultural development of Chines American Life in the past century. The begining section of this book gives a clear historical overview of Chinese migration to the Unites States and the further section is followed up by critical discussion of the development of key community institutions. The essays in this volume, as written by Him Mark Lai, will be of interset to scholars of Asian and Asian American studies, American History, ethnicity and immigration.

Author：Ko-Lin Chin

Publisher ：Temple University Press Philadelphia

Publishing Year ：1999

Call Number ：E184.C5 C539s

Introduction ：

In the series of Asian American History and Culture, this book describes the hardship of smuggled Chineses in United states and how they overcomed perils while surviving in U.S., especially in New York’s China Town, which the experience was described  as ‘a dissapointment if not a curse’. This book further concludes the consiquences of flaws in national policies and lax law enfourcement and how this can perpetuate the cycle of desperation and suffering for the people at time. This book also includes the testimony collected by the author, Ko-lin Chin, through interviewing people of different levels, which include smugglers, illegal immigrants, government officials and business owners of over different countries, such as Taiwan, U.S. and China.

Editor ：Sue Fawn Chung and Pricsilla Wegars

Publisher ：AltaMira Press

Publishing Year ：2005

Call Number ：E184.C5 C539ca

Introduction ：

Death rituals have been valued by people thoughout the world for a long time. Nevertheless, people with different cultural backgroud use different ways to remember and commemorate their dead family and ancestors. This book focused on the funerary rituals and cemeteries of Chinese people in America from the late nineteenth century to show the importance of death rituals for them and the changes of the funerary rites over time. Studying individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment, the authors illustrates the resolution of Chinese Americans on the tension between American mainstream culture and their Chinese heritage.