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Chinese American Web Sites
100 Years of Owyang Family history in America
Links to family history and immigration records of Owyang family in California

Flo Oy Wong Rice Sack Artist
Flo Oy is a leading "installation artist" noted for her artistry in using the large Texas AA patna rice bags in creating tributes to the lives of Chinese immigrants of the past.

Asian-Nation
Asian-Nation is an authoritative, one-stop information resource and sociological exploration of the historical, demographic, political, and cultural issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community. You can think of Asian-Nation as an online version of "Asian Americans 101."


Chinese immigration
History of Racism Against Chinese in North America
A list of sites dealing with racism against Chinese in different regions in North America

History of Chinese Communities in North America
List of websites covering regional history of Chinese immigrants in communities across the U. S. and Canada

Angel Island Immigration Station
Link to the Angel Island Immigration Station where all of the Chinese immigrants were detained, interrogated, and sometimes deported.

Center for Educational Telecommunications (CET)
Links to Asian American history websites

Angel Island shhh!
Installation art on aspects of immigration such as the Chinese experience at Angel Island. Artist Flo Oy Wong notes, "Since 1986, I have used cloth rice sacks to narrate personal, familial, cultural and community stories. For "made in usa: Angel Island Shhh," a three-year oral history-based project, I embellish the rice sacks with text, beads, sequins, and the American flag. With these materials, I narrate stories of Chinese immigrants who entered this country under false identities because of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Law."


Chinese laundry history
Ticket to Gold Mountain
Information about the origins and operations of Chinese laundries in US and Canada during years of Chinese exclusion. Discussion of key role they played on the economic, psychological, and social status of Chinese immigrants and their families

Southern Fried Rice
Story of the life of a solitary Chinese family operating a laundry in the Deep South before the civil rights era

Chinese laundry history
List of Sites Dealing with Chinese laundries in general, as well as some referring to specific laundries in specific cities.

Washing Gold Mountain
Information and links related to the history of Chinese laundries and its role on Chinese immigrant survival in North America.


Great Reading
The Adventures of Eddie Fung, Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War
Saga chronicles the many diverse life experiences of Eddie Fung, a spirited and resourceful kid whose adventures provide instructive as well as inspiring lessons for life.

Chinese Heart of Texas: The San Antonio Community, 1875-1975.
Mel Brown's readable and authoritative history of San Antonio's Chinese community for the century from 1875-1975.

Asian Texans: Our Histories, Our Lives
A comprehensive overview by Irwin Tang and his associates of the history of many Asian Americans from many ethnic groups now living in Texas. It describes their struggles that confronted them as they overcame to make important contributions to their communities.

Sisters of Heaven. China's Barnstorming Aviatrixes: Modernity, Feminism, and Popular Imagination in Asia and the West
Patti Gully's account of how three vivacious young Chinese women defied gender roles by becoming pilots to inspire a nation on the brink of war. Driven by a fierce independent spirit, they realized their dream of flying, completed barnstorming goodwill missions across the Western Hemisphere, and captured the imagination of all those whose lives they touched.


Southern Fried Rice book
What Some Readers Like About Southern Fried Rice
Comments from Some Readers of Southern Fried Rice

Southern Fried Rice
Reviews of a memoir about growing up in my parents' Chinese laundry in Macon, Georgia where we were the only Chinese in the entire city during the Jim Crow era


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