The New Chinese America

Zhao's book provides the most detailed and relatively comprehensive look that we have of the ways in which Chinese America works and aspires.

— Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cincinnati

Zhao gives us an engaging, well-researched, and thoughtfully contextualized book. It offers refreshingly rich insights into the transformation of Chinese America in recent decades. This important book will also benefit those interested in immigration and ethnicity in American society.

— Yong Chen, University of California, Irvine (History, Asian American Studies)

The New Chinese America is a path-breaking study that tackles contemporary issues from a historical perspective. Employing multiple sources of data, from census statistics and archival material to oral histories and face-to-face interviews, Zhao presents sufficient evidence to demonstrate how class is reproduced in the Chinese American community and how internal class dynamics involve conflict and exploitation as well as shared struggle, negotiation, and interdependence.

— Min Zhou, author of Contemporary Chinese America