Introduction vii
The Old Country: Imperial China in the Nineteenth Century 1
America: A New Hope 20
"Never Fear, and You Will Be Lucky": Journey and Arrival in San Francisco 29
Gold Rushers on Gold Mountain 38
Building the Transcontinental Railroad 53
Life on the Western Frontier 65
Spreading Across America 93
Rumblings of Hatred 116
The Chinese Exclusion Act 130
Work and Survival in the Twentieth Century 157
A New Generation is Born 173
Chinese America During the Great Depression 199
"The Most Important Historical Event of Our Times": World War II 215
"A Mass Inquisition": The Cold War, the Chinese Civil War, and McCarthyism 236
New Arrivals, New Lives: The Chaotic 1960s 261
The Taiwanese Americans 283
The Bamboo Curtain Rises: Mainlanders and Model Minorities 312
Decade of Fear: The 1990s 334
High Tech vs. Low Tech 348
A Uncertain Future 389
Notes 405
Acknowledgements 477
Index 481
Iris Chang(1968-2004) lived and worked in California. She was a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana and worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminar program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book,Thread of the Silkworm(the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program) received worldwide critical acclaim. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Rape of Nanking. She was the recipient of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation award, as well as major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Harry Truman Library.
“Engrossing... The Chinese Americans’ struggle for success, its costs and tenuousness, are major themes in Chang’s highly readable, panoramic history.... Absorbing, passionate.” —San Francisco Chronicle“A thought-provoking overview of how the Chinese have been an integral part of American history... An exemplary achievement.” —Christian Science Monitor“Richly detailed... I know of no better introduction to this multilayered and emotionally charged story.” —Jonathan D. Spence“Comprehensive, beautifully written, filled with deft and passionate analysis—the definitive book on Chinese American history for a new generation. Iris Chang places today’s Chinese Americans brilliantly into 150 years of U.S. history.” —David Henry Hwang, Tony Award–winning playwright
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