ABOUT THIS BOOK

Sucheng Chan introduces this valuable new anthology with a commanding discussion of the field of Chinese American studies, in which she examines its history and points the way ahead. Here she and Madeline Y. Hsu have brought together leading-edge scholarship from a new generation of thinkers, as useful for scholars as it is for undergraduate readers.

The contributors address a broad range of issues, from the activism of left-wing and Communist Chinese immigrants to the U.S. in the 1920s and early 1930s and humanitarian relief during the Sino-Japanese War to the construction of new Chinese regional identities in New York.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Sucheng Chan is professor emerita of Asian American Studies and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Madeline Y. Hsu is Director of the Center for Asian American Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin

REVIEWS

"Covering a wide range of historical and contemporary issues in Chinese American life, this anthology is vastly informed and filled with fresh research drawing on archives or documents that hitherto have not been accessed. The ideas contained in the essays are so original and comprehensive that together, they constitute both a theoretically and empirically engaging challenge to tradition-centric concepts in Chinese American studies I find few existing scholarly works that can match the scope and depth of this volume's broad and thought-provoking coverage of Chinese American history."
—Xiao-huang Yin, author of Chinese American Literature since the 1850s

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Chinese American Historiography: What Difference
         Has the Asian American Movement Made?
                   Sucheng Chan

Chapter 1.    History as Law and Life: Tape v. Hurley and the
           Origins of the Chinese American Middle Class
                   Mae M. Ngai

Chapter 2.    The Activism of Left-wing and Communist Chinese
              Immigrants, 1927-1933
                   Josephine Fowler

Chapter 3.    Filling the Rice Bowls of China: Staging
              Humanitarian Relief during the Sino-Japanese War
                   Karen J. Leong and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

Chapter 4.    From Pariah to Paragon: Shifting Images of Chinese
              Americans during World War II
                   K. Scott Wong

Chapter 5.    From Chop Suey to Mandarin Cuisine: Fine Dining and
              The Refashioning of Chinese Ethnicity during the
              Cold War Era
                   Madeline Y. Hsu

Chapter 6.    Searching for Roots in Contemporary China and
              Chinese America
                   Andrea Louie

Chapter 7.    The "Spirit of Changle": Constructing a Chinese
           Regional Identity in New York
                   Xiaojian Zhao

Contributors

Index

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