Chinese America: History and Perspectives articles from January 1 2001

Chinese America: History and Perspectives archives from January 1 2001

Introduction.
January 1, 2001... The essays published in the 2001 issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives look into diverse aspects of the Chinese American historical experience. Part II of Him Mark Lai's "Retention of the Chinese Heritage" discusses the history and...

Retention of the Chinese Heritage, Part II.
January 1, 2001... Chinese Schools in America, World War II to the Present Editor's Note: For a discussion of the historical development the schools up to World War II, please refer to the author's "Retention of the Chinese Heritage: Chinese Schools in...

The Laundry Man's Got a Knife!(the image of China and Chinese America in film from 1894 to 1910)
January 1, 2001... China and Chinese America in Early United States Cinema On August 28, 1896, Li Hung Chang, the former viceroy of China, arrived in New York harbor to commence the final stage of his world tour. On hand to greet him were a large crowd waving...

Chinese Christian Youth Conferences in America, with a Focus on the East Coast.
January 1, 2001... YOUTH SEARCH FOR ANSWERS The Chinese or the American Way? As the twentieth-century progressed, the emerging and increasing population of American-born youth of Chinese descent faced many challenging and critical questions. They were...

The Future of the Exclusively Chinese Churches in America.
January 1, 2001... Editor's Note: This paper was an address presented at the National Conference of Christian Work Among the Chinese in America, September 16-19, 1958, in San Francisco, California. Many think that there is no future for the exclusively...

Growth of Chinese Protestant Congregations from 1950 to Mid-1996 in Five Bay Area Counties.
January 1, 2001... Editors Note: This essay is reprinted with the permission of Rev. James Chuck, and consists of revised excerpts from his "An Exploratory Study of the Growth of Chinese Protestant Congregations from 1950 to Mid-1996 in Five Bay Area Counties:...

Donaldina Cameron. (woman who helped free and take care of slave girls from China who were brought to San Francisco in the 1890s).
January 1, 2001... A Reappraisal Editor's Note: This essay is reprinted with the permission of Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies, University of the Pacific. It appeared in The Pacific Historian, vol. 27, no. 3 (Fall 1983). Chinese girls...

Going Through College.(memoir from Chinese American in 1920s)
January 1, 2001... Up Grade--or Down? Editor's Note: Chi Chang was a native of Changsha in Hunan Province. He graduated from Fuh Tan Middle School in Shanghai and went abroad to study in 1918. After reaching the United States, he majored in mining...