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|  | | A Chinese American Odyssey: How A Retired Psychologist Makes A Hit As A His
"A Chinese American Odyssey" provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, publishing, speaking on and promoting four previous books on the Chinese immigrant experience in America by a retired professor of psychology. Writers as well as readers of nonfiction books on any topic will find valuable information and insight about the writing and publishing process.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public historian of Chinese in America... a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, publishing, and promoting books. Writers of books on any topic will find useful information./span>
| |  | | Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947.
strong>Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families./strong>
| |  | | Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Groce
The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived
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div class="contentListDescr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 5px 0px;">"Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton"is a social history of the lives of these pioneering families and the unique and valuable role they played in their communities for over a century. It examines their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place and describes how the Chinese, less than 1 percent of the population in the region, managed to | |  | | Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South
This memoir conveys the experiences, first of my parents and subsequently of our family, the only Chinese people living in Macon, Georgia between 1928 and 1956. It describes our family's isolated existence running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice for over 20 years, why and how it moved across the continent to live in a Chinese community, and how each family member adjusted to the challenges and opportunities of their new lives.
| |  | | Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants
Sweet and Sour examines the difficult lives of the Chinese immigrants and their families that made their livelihoods operating countless small restaurants during most of the past century often in small remote places.
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: Arial;"> span class="Apple-style-span">Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business around the end of the 19th century? What conditions made it possible for Chinese to open and succeed in operating restaurants after they emigrated to North America? How did Chinese restaurants manage to attract non-Chinese customers, given that they had little or no acquaintance with the Chinese style of food preparation and many had vicious hostility toward Chinese immigrants? The goal of "Sweet and Sour" is to understand how |
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