Information about Yin and Yang Press books on Chinese American history by John Jung. Includes links to webpage with information about all 4 books, evaluations from readers, audiences, and scholars, photographs from book signings, video clips, and author background.

3. Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese
Laundry in the Deep South
• “a fascinating and insightful account of Chinese-American family
life in the context of restraints on immigration and the U.S. racial
and economic systems. This story of one remarkable family offers
valuable insight about economic struggles in difficult times,
intergenerational relations, continuing ties to Chinese culture and
community, family obligation, gender, the key role of laundries in
Chinese economic opportunity, and much else.
• This is a charming and informative book.”
• Paul Rosenblatt, Family Social Sciences, University of Minnesota
Author, Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices

4. Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival
on Gold Mountain
• … a remarkable book...a comprehensive historical study of the
Chinese laundries in the United States, a profound analysis of the
psychological experiences of the Chinese laundrymen in America
and their families in China; and above all, written by someone who
has intimate experiences with the Chinese laundry, it is a tribute to
those Chinese immigrants whose labor and sacrifice laid the
foundation of the Chinese American community, and a testimony of
the Chinese laundrymen’s resilience, resourcefulness, and
humanity.
• Renqiu Yu, Author, To Save China, To Save Ourselves, The Chinese
Hand Laundry Alliance of New York.

5. Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton:
Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers
• John Jung has done it again! Plunging into the history of
Chinese grocers in the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, he traces
their migration history, work, families, and social lives. His
work is anchored in a creative mix of oral history,
community historical documents and public records, and
includes a generous fill of photos. As a study of the
complexities of triangular race relations in the Jim Crow
South, his work rivals James Loewen's classic study, The
Mississippi Chinese.
• Greg Robinson, Professor of History.
• Author, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment
of Japanese Americans ( 2001)

6. Sweet and Sour:
Life in Chinese Family Restaurants
• I greatly admired and enjoyed "Sweet and Sour: Life in
Chinese Family Restaurants" It does an excellent job
of going over the historical background on early U. S.
Chinese restaurants, unearthing lots of material new to
me. And the interviews of Chinese restaurateurs
opened up a whole new side to the story, of what it
was like to work and live in these restaurants.
• Andrew Coe, Author, Chop Suey: A Cultural History of
Chinese Food in the United States

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