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The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
What do you believe in? James Yee believed in God and America and one of those got him thrown in jail.
What do you believe in? James Yee believed in God and America and one of those got him thrown in jail.
"Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites--intellectuals, businessmen, and students--wh…
The saga of three families living in San Francisco during the earthquake, World War I and the Depression.
A peculiar obsession : the Chinese and Japanese problem in the "international city"--A wide-open town? White and heterosexual supremacy in permissive San Francisco -- "Deliver me from the brainy woman" : the modern woman and the geisha -- Prostitution proliferates : "Mrs. Flirty…
"In the late 1890s, San Francisco -- a town reputed to be "wide and open"--Appeared to be a place where men and women could configure their intimate lives in ways not permissible in other parts of America. Conversations on high rates of divorce, an open rejection of marriage, ma…
Two plays about the stereotypical Asian-American who is quiet, hardworking, and removed from the white community.
Two plays about the stereotypical Asian-American who is quiet, hardworking, and removed from the white community.