Origins of the Chang family
Yitang as a merchant immigrant
Herbal medicine as a transplanted culture
Between troubled home and racist America
Asparagus farming as family business
Education as a family agenda
China as a cultural home
Haiming Liu is an Asian American Studies Professor in the Ethnic and Women's Studies Department of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.
This brilliantly nuanced story... challenges us to rethink
immigration and immigrant adaptation in the broader cross-cultural
and transnational milieu.
*inaugural chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the
University of California, Los Ang*
An important history of Chinese American transnationalism, the book
provides valuable insights into lesser known aspects of these
immigrant lives, and allows us to understand Asian American history
through the well-documented experiences of a family.
*author of Chinese San Francisco, 1850 - 1943: A Transpacific
Community*
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