Chinese America: History and Perspectives articles from January 1 2004

Chinese America: History and Perspectives archives from January 1 2004

Asparagus farming, family business, and immigrant sensibility: Sam Chang's life and writing as a Chinese-American farmer (1).
January 1, 2004... Sam Chang was a well-known Chinese farmer in Southern California. (2) He was born in 1886 in Kaiping County, Guangdong Province, and came to the United States in 1915 on a government mission. After his official business, he stayed and joined...

A mother's dream.
January 1, 2004... The following essay was edited from an interview that was conducted in Cantonese in January 2000. It was for an ethnic studies course, "Immigrant and Refugee Women," taught by Colleen Fong, PhD, at California State University, Hayward . I...

The quest for family stability.
January 1, 2004... This essay, Chapter 6 from the author's work, Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965 (Rutgers University Press, 2002) is reprinted by permission of the publisher. The transformation of the Chinese American...

The Wenzhouese community in New York City.
January 1, 2004... The original essay in Chinese was written by Mr. John T Ma for presentation at a conference in Flushing, N.Y. in October 2000. Him Mark Lai translated the text into English for this publication. He also edited the essay and provided additional...

Stranded scholar from China: the life of Calvin H. Chen, MD.
January 1, 2004... This essay was revised from a paper originally presented at the National Social Science Association Professional Development Conference on November 15, 2002, in New Orleans. Chinese immigration into the United States has been described...

From studying abroad to staying abroad.
January 1, 2004... translated from the Chinese by Marlon K. Hom This essay is a translated, edited, and updated version of the author's essay "Cong liuxue dao xueliu," published in Chinese in Volume II of DE Li Yu-ning, ed., Chinese Experiences Studying in...

The Chinese-Marxist left, Chinese students and scholars in America, and the New China: mid-1940s to mid-1950s.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION When World War II ended in 1945, the German and Japanese military machines had been destroyed, and the victorious Western European allies were exhausted. The United States and the USSR were preparing to challenge each other...

Myths of creation and the creation of myths: interrogating Chinese diaspora (1).
January 1, 2004... We live in an age of globalization. As everyone knows, in the present era it is almost impossible to open borders for movements of information, capital, and commodities but close borders to movements of people. In fact millions of people are...

Introduction.
January 1, 2004... The 2004 issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives explores themes of identity and settlement in the struggles for stability and socioeconomic progress of most migrants around the world. What are the priorities of ethnic Chinese from...