Chinese America: The Untold Story Of America's Oldest New Community

Taking a hard look at the unique and painful experiences of Chinese immigrants trying to make America their home, this work explores the various ways Chinese Americans have negotiated between assimilating and maintaining ethnic identity. Photos.

A magisterial history of the Chinese experience in America, hailed by Howard Zinn as "a wonderful book" that "fills an enormous gap in our history."
Described by the "Washington Post Book World" upon its initial release as "shocking, depressing but ultimately uplifting," "Chinese America" is award-winning author Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic's definitive portrait of one of the oldest immigrant groups and fastest-growing communities in the United States.
Drawing on years of original research and firsthand reporting across the United States and Asia, it charts 150 years of American history from the Chinese frontiersmen of the Wild West to the high-tech transnationals of today's booming Chinese American "ethnoburbs." Kwong and Miscevic apply new thinking to an immigrant story too often told as a simple tale of triumph over adversity.
This paradigm-shifting book gives us an entirely original and fresh examination of the new immigrant communities that are transforming present-day America. "Chinese America" offers a new picture of America's development and the complex connections between immigration, globalization, and foreign policy that exist within our history. Twenty-seven b/w photographs.