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  • A Chinese American Odyssey: How A Retired Psychologist Makes A Hit As A Historian

    by John Jung ...
    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, ideas, and inspiration. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers

    by John Jung ...
    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. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain

    by John Jung ...
    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. 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. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South

    by John Jung ...
    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, explains why and how we moved across the continent to live in San Francisco to be near a Chinese community, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Chinese Laundrymen: Macon, Georgia 1884-1956

    by John Jung ...
    A history of Chinese immigrants, all bachelors except one, who settled in Macon, Georgia, where they all ran laundries starting as early as 1884. All were gone by the late 1920s, except for the only one who had a wife and children, and by 1956, they had departed leaving Macon with no Chinese residents. Why did these Chinese come to the Deep South where they were so culturally isolated during a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants

    by John Jung ...
    Sweet and Sour examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. 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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Far East, Down South

    Asians in the American South

    by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, Chizuru Saeki, Chizuru Saeki, Greg Robinson, Wenxian Zhang, Vincent H. Melomo, John Jung0, Daniel Bronstein1, John Howard2, David M Reimers4, Karen J. Leong5, Christopher A. Airriess6, Wei Li7, Angela Chia-Chen Chen8, Verna M. Keith9 ...
    Series series The Modern South
    Uncovering the overlooked histories of Asians in the American South.In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki provide a collection of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants

    by Professor of Psychology Emeritus John Jung ...
    "Sweet and Sour" examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. 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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South

    by John Jung ...
    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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain

    by John Jung ...
    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. 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. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers

    by Professor of Psychology Emeritus John Jung ...
    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. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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