Chinese American Transnationalism considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China throu

Collection of essays by Chinese-American scholar Him Mark Lai; published in association with the Chinese Historical Society of San Francisco.

This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from the county of Taishan, from which, until 1965, a high percentage of the Chinese i

Born and raised in San Francisco, Lai was trained as an engineer but blazed a trail in the field of Asian American studies. Long before the field had any academ

The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under eighteen years old—one out of every five children in the Unite