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This is a collection of the last essays by Yuji Ichioka, the
foremost authority on Japanese-American history, who passed away
two years ago. The essays focus on Japanese Americans during the
interwar years and explore issues such as the nisei (American-born
generation) relationship toward Japan, Japanese-American attitudes
toward Japan's prewar expansionism in Asia, and the meaning of
"loyalty" in a racist society--all controversial but central issues
in Japanese-American history.
Asian Americans have quite recently emerged as an increasingly
important force in American politics. In 1996, more than 300 Asian
and Pacific Americans were elected to federal, state, and local
offices; today, more than 2,000 hold appointive positions in
government. Asian American voices have been prominent in policy
debates over such matters as education, race relations, and
immigration reform. On a more discordant note, a national
controversy with racial overtones erupted in 1996-97 over alleged
illegal Asian and Asian American campaign contributions and illicit
foreign influences on American politics, and in 1999 another
controversy arose over allegations that a Chinese American
physicist had passed nuclear secrets to the Chinese government.
This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography
of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of
the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The
second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi's wartime writings,
the only comprehensive first-person account of internment life by
one of the 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who, in 1942, were
sent by the U.S. government to "relocation centers," the euphemism
for prison camps.
Winner of the 1991 Stuart L. Bernath Prize, sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. ---------- "A swift-paced, absorbing account of the dangerous political maneuvers that engaged America with both China and the Soviet Union during the years between 1948 and 1972...Chang's account is impressively documented with once-classified records...This is a scrupulously detailed history, scholarly and at the same time filled with incident, insight, and personality...Chang paints a fascinating picture."--San Francisco Chronicle
The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the Transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90 percent of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The Railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume explores the experiences of Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West.
The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the Transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90 percent of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The Railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume explores the experiences of Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West.
Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America's future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China's importance to their own national destiny. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America's long and varied preoccupation with China. China has held a special place in the American imagination from colonial times, when Jamestown settlers pursued a passage to the Pacific and Asia. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans plied a profitable trade in Chinese wares, sought Chinese laborers to build the West, and prized China's art and decor. China was revered for its ancient culture but also drew Christian missionaries intent on saving souls in a heathen land. Its vast markets beckoned expansionists, even as its migrants were seen as a "yellow peril" that prompted the earliest immigration restrictions. A staunch ally during World War II, China was a dangerous adversary in the Cold War that followed. In the post-Mao era, Americans again embraced China as a land of inexhaustible opportunity, playing a central role in its economic rise. Through portraits of entrepreneurs, missionaries, academics, artists, diplomats, and activists, Chang demonstrates how ideas about China have long been embedded in America's conception of itself and its own fate. Fateful Ties provides valuable perspective on this complex international and intercultural relationship as America navigates an uncertain new era.
This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second is to present, through Ichihashi's wartime writings, the only known comprehensive first-person account of internment life by one of the 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who, in 1942, were sent by the U.S. government to "relocation centers", the euphemism for prison camps. In the comprehensive biographical essay that opens the book, Gordon Chang explores Ichihashi's personal life and intellectual work until his forced departure from Stanford, examining his career, publications, and experiences in American academia in the early twentieth century. He also relates Ichihashi's involvement in international conferences, including the 1922 Disarmament Conference - an involvement with later consequences. Ichihashi's internment writings take various forms: diaries, research essays, and correspondence with friends and Stanford colleagues. The editor has extensively annotated and interwoven them into a coherent narrative. As a trained social scientist and an experienced writer fluent in both English and Japanese, Ichihashi was uniquely prepared to observe and record the dramatic events he experienced. In addition to Ichihashi's writings, the book includes touching correspondence from Kei to a close friend at Stanford. The editor closes the book with an Epilogue about the Ichihashis' lives after the war. Ichihashi's writings convey to us, as no other account does, the cut and drift and anxiety of everyday existence in the camps. We experience the grinding tedium and frequently harsh conditionsof daily life and the ever-present uncertainty, suspicion, and even fear that permeated the internees' existence. Equally knowledgeable about American and Japanese ways, Ichihashi offers valuable insights into administrators (ironically, one camp director had been his student at Stanford) as well as internees - both issei (immigrants) and nisei (American-born). His documentation of meetings and discussions with other internees introduces us to a rich gallery of personalities and viewpoints, helping us to see beyond what otherwise would seem an undifferentiated and impersonal mass of people.
"Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970" is the first
comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists
of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The
publication features original essays by ten leading scholars,
biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of
artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists.
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