By Clarence Leong This is an excerpt from a book in progress on Chinese immigrants to America in the era of the Chinese Exclusion… Read More »The Exclusion Years: How a Law Shaped the Chinese American Experience
By Clarence Leong For decades under the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943), Chinese immigrants could only come to the United States if they could show that… Read More »The Coaching Book
By Clarence Leong Amy Chin’s paternal grandfather Bok Ying Chin came to the U.S. during a time, like our own, when the U.S. government… Read More »The U.S. Immigration Policy’s Haunted Past
By Clarence Leong In 1935, Shuck Wing Chin left Taishan County in southern China, bade farewell to his wife and children, and embarked on a… Read More »The Life as Someone Else’s Son