Publisher: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

Year: 2001

Call Number: F870.C5B851

Introduction: With Bridging the Centuries: History of Chinese Americans in Southern California, the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) had produced an important and inspiring book. It is the first that to look at all of the Chinese American settlements in Southern California- from Santa Barbara south to San Diego, from downtown Los Angeles east to Riverside, and everything between-while tracing the evolution of the oldest communities to the newest incarnations in the San Gabriel Valley. This history is supplemented by wonderful stories of the famous and infamous, as well as the stories of the everyday people who have made America their home. In their words, history comes alive; these are real people with real stories to tell. Finally, Bridging The Centuries doesn’t just look at the distant past and early pioneers. It also looks at today’s pioneers-those Chinese Americans who are making great contributions to the city, the state, and the nation.

Author：Linda Perrin

Publisher：Delacorte Press

Publishing Year：1980

Call Number：E184.O6P458

Introduction：The Coming To America series will consist of six books,each centering on a different cluster of ethnic groups. Unlike other studies of the immigrant experience, these do not focus solely on the crossing, Ellis Island, and what happened on United States soil but also on life in the “old country” and what caused our forebears to emigrate in the first place.

Each book in the series combines wide-ranging primary sources-diaries, letters, photographs, interviews-to create living stories of hope and adaptation to ‘the American way of life’.

Profusely illustrated, each volume contains documented sources, a bibliography, a brief history of U.S. immigration laws,and an index.

Author：Joann Faung Jean Lee

Publisher：The New Press

Publishing Year：2008

Call Number：E184.A75A832aat

Introduction：This book is a twenty-first-century snapshot of Asian Pacific Americans inside the gates of Gold Mountain. It is a tapestry of tales reflecting their lives, experiences, hopes, and dreams. Ultimately the spectrum of values——in education, family, work——form a remarkable mosaic of the Asian American experience, distinct in many ways from that of Asians living either in Asia or as immigrants encountering diaspora elsewhere in the world.

作者：吴前进

出版社：上海社会科学院

出版年份：1998年10月

索书号：E184.C5W959m

介绍：此书以美国华侨、华人文化变迁为立论，重点探讨中西文化冲撞、交织、融汇过程中价值观念嬗变的曲折演进，并结合了社会学、文化学、历史学等多学科、跨领域的研究方法，从各个方位展示华侨、华人文化变迁的逻辑发展和现实成果，借以从方法论上为传统文化与现代文明的交汇找到实证的依据、经验的落实，突现本书研究的学科取向和努力指归，以达到经验与理论的较有成果的综合与互补。

Author：Yen Le Espiritu

Publisher：Temple University Press

Publishing Year：1992

Call Number：E184.A75E77

Introduction：With different histories, cultures, languages, and separate identities, most Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese origin are lumped together and viewed by other Americans simply as Asian Americans. Since the mid-1960s however, these different groups have come together to promote and protect both their individual and their united interests. The first book to examine this particular subject, Asian American Panethnicity is a highly detailed case study of how, and with what success, diverse national-origin group can some together as a new, enlarged panethnic group.

Yan Le Espiritu discusses how Asian American panethnicity was able to develop only after the myriad groups of immigrants had children who were born in the United States. No longer separated by old world political conflicts, languages, and customs, these younger Asian Americans could see the political necessity and social advantages of uniting and speaking with one voice. However, the influx of the post-1965 Asian immigrants and refugees has exacerbated intergroup divisions. Making use of extensive interviews and statistical data, Espiritu examines how Asian panethnicity protects the rights and interests of all Asian American groups, including those, like the Vietnamese and Cambodians, who are less powerful and prominent than the Chinese and Japanese.