"These essays by leading scholars of Chinese American history are full of new information and important insights. Chinese American Transnationalism leads us away from simplistic binaries towards a more nuanced and subtle understanding of the complex connections that Chinese Americans maintained between home and homeland."—Robert G. Lee, Associate Professor of American Civilization, Brown University, and author of Orientals (Temple)
"Chinese American Transnationalism contains fresh and original contributions, highlighting the long history of transnationalism in Chinese American history. Though Chinese exclusion laws tried to curb Chinese immigration to the United States, the authors of this excellent volume demonstrate that people, ideas, cultural and political practices, and economic resources continued to migrate back and forth across the Pacific. Despite significant legal obstacles, Chinese Americans created vibrant communities with complex ties to both China and the United States."—Lucy E. Salyer, University of New Hampshire
"Chinese American Transnationalism flows particularly well from Chan's last volume, Claiming America. Her introduction is gracefully written and does an impressive job of tying together the chapters in the anthology, showing how each connects in a different way with the general theme of Chinese immigrants' desire to maintain cultural and material ties with their country of origin. There is something interesting and valuable to be learned from every one of the individual essays, and together, they throw significant new light on the experience of the Chinese American community during the exclusion era."—Charles McClain, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley