Table of Contents

Origins of the Chang family
Yitang as a merchant immigrant
Herbal medicine as a transplanted culture
Between troubled home and racist America
Asparagus farming as family business
Education as a family agenda
China as a cultural home

About the Author

Haiming Liu is an Asian American Studies Professor in the Ethnic and Women's Studies Department of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews

This brilliantly nuanced story... challenges us to rethink immigration and immigrant adaptation in the broader cross-cultural and transnational milieu.
*inaugural chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Ang*

An important history of Chinese American transnationalism, the book provides valuable insights into lesser known aspects of these immigrant lives, and allows us to understand Asian American history through the well-documented experiences of a family.
*author of Chinese San Francisco, 1850 - 1943: A Transpacific Community*