Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and

by Joann Faung Jean Lee

Overview

Since the first three documented Chinese arrived in this country in 1848, more than six million Asians have followed. The huge immigrations of recent years have prompted a surge of interest in the new Asian American experience. In Asian Americans, these immigrants and their families present their own stories—why they came to America and what it means to be Asian in America today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565840232
Publisher:	New Press, The
Publication date:	12/01/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joann Faung Jean Lee is the author of the oral histories Asian Americans and Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century, both published by The New Press, and of Asian American Actors: Oral Histories from Stage, Screen, and Television. She currently teaches at William Paterson Universityand previously taught at Queens College, CUNY, and at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Lee was formerly a broadcast journalist for CNN. She lives in Northvale, New Jersey.

Editorial Reviews

"A welcome look at the diversity of Asian American cultures." Reference and Research Book News

"No reader . . . can go away from the book without a sense of the immense complexity of Asian America today." The Journal of Asian Studies

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