New Chinese America

Xiaojian Zhao is an associate professor in the department of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Remaking ChineseAmerica: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940û1965 (Rutgers University Press), winner of the History Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies.

• Acknowledgements Note on Translation Introduction: Rethinking Chinese America 1. Contemporary Chinese American Population: The Documented and the Invisible2. Drawing Lines of Class Distinction3. "Serve the People": The Ethnic Economy4. The "Spirit of Changle": Constructing a Regional Identity5. Surviving Poverty in an Ethnic Social Hierarchy Conclusion: Inclusion or Exclusion!NotesSelected Bibliography Index

Zhao's book provides the most detailed and relatively comprehensive look that we have of the ways in which Chinese America works and aspires.— Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History, University of CincinnatiZhao gives us an engaging, well-researched, and thoughtfully contextualized book. It offers refreshingly rich insights into the transformation of Chinese America in recent decades. This important book will also benefit those interested in immigration and ethnicity in American society.— Yong Chen, University of California, Irvine (History, Asian American Studies)The New Chinese America is a path-breaking study that tackles contemporary issues from a historical perspective. Employing multiple sources of data, from census statistics and archival material to oral histories and face-to-face interviews, Zhao presents sufficient evidence to demonstrate how class is reproduced in the Chinese American community and how internal class dynamics involve conflict and exploitation as well as shared struggle, negotiation, and interdependence.— Min Zhou, author of Contemporary Chinese America