Based on prodigious research, this book chronicles the activities of the thousands of Chinese agricultural pioneers and entrepreneurs who helped make California the nation's premier agricultural state.
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The role of the Chinese in California agriculture during the later decades of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century was an integral aspect of the agricultural history of the western United States. Although the number of Chinese involved in agricultural occupations at one time never exceeded 6000 to 7000 workers, their lack of numbers does not diminish their impact. Author Chan, of Chinese origin, has made extensive use of census records and county archival sources to produce the first full history of the Chinese in California agriculture. This is her first of a planned two-volume set. The second volume will focus on Japanese farmers from 1890 until their placement in relocation camps. Her book represents a significant accomplishment in agricultural history. Highly recommended for all research collections. Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., Ala.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Sucheng Chan is Professor of History and Director of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Sucheng Chan is Professor Emerita of Asian American Studies and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Though her Ph.D. is in political science, she retooled herself as a historian while teaching Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley because so many questions that students asked could only be answered through historical research. She is the author or editor of 18 books, 5 of which have received awards: This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910; Asian Americans: An Interpretive History; Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America; Claiming America: Constructions of Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era; and Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States. Her other books have likewise been influential in the field. She has also written dozens of articles and book chapters, some of which have won awards.
A dedicated teacher, she is the recipient of 2 Distinguished Teaching Awards (the first from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and the second from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998), as well as awards for service to students, the campus community, and the profession. She was the first Asian American woman to be appointed as a provost in the 10-campus University of California system, becoming Provost of Oakes College at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1984. She moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1988, where she transformed the Asian American Studies Program into a full-fledged department in 1994, chairing the program and then the department from 1988 to 1997. She is also a co-founder of the Global Studies Program on the same campus.
She retired at age 60 in 2001 because the post-polio syndrome from which she has suffered for many years made it impossible to continue teaching. She has continued to write and is presently working on three book manuscripts: Asian America in Global Perspective; Vietnamese Refuge-Seekers and the Politics of Resettlement; and The Japanese in California Agriculture: Land, Labor, Race, and the Law, 1900-1942.
A dedicated teacher, she is the recipient of 2 Distinguished Teaching Awards (the first from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and the second from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998), as well as awards for service to students, the campus community, and the profession. She was the first Asian American woman to be appointed as a provost in the 10-campus University of California system, becoming Provost of Oakes College at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1984. She moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1988, where she transformed the Asian American Studies Program into a full-fledged department in 1994, chairing the program and then the department from 1988 to 1997. She is also a co-founder of the Global Studies Program on the same campus.
She retired at age 60 in 2001 because the post-polio syndrome from which she has suffered for many years made it impossible to continue teaching. She has continued to write and is presently working on three book manuscripts: Asian America in Global Perspective; Vietnamese Refuge-Seekers and the Politics of Resettlement; and The Japanese in California Agriculture: Land, Labor, Race, and the Law, 1900-1942.
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Excellent History,
By Dr. Robert Kautz (Nevada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910 (Hardcover)
Sucheng Chan has written an excellent history of the contribution of Chinese agriculturists to the development of the American West. By interweaving the unusual with the mundane she has produced a text that relates statistically derived data to important generalizations regarding the interdependency of ethnic groups, labor specializations, and regions. Highly recommended to the historian or anthropologist interested in labor specialization and ethnic adaptation in the 19th and 20th centuries. This book is available in paper as well as hardback.
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