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Tape v. Hurley, 66 Cal. 473 (1885) was a landmark court case in the California Supreme Court in which the Court found the exclusion of a Chinese American student, Mamie Tape, from public school based on her ancestry unlawful. However, state legislation passed at the urging of San Francisco Superintendent of Schools Andrew J. Moulder after the ...
Hanyu Pinyin. Lǐ Bīn Huá. Yue: Cantonese. Jyutping. Lei5 Ban1 Waa4. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee[ 2 ] (Chinese : 李彬华; October 7, 1896 – 1966) was a Chinese-American women's rights activist and minister who campaigned for women's suffrage in the United States. Later in life, Lee became a Baptist minister, working with the First Chinese Baptist ...
Chinese American literature. Chinese American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Chinese descent. The genre began in the 19th century and flowered in the 20th with such authors as Sui Sin Far, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan.
The Chinese in America. The Chinese in America: A Narrative History is a non-fiction book about the history of Chinese Americans by Iris Chang. The epic and narrative history book was published in 2003 by Viking Penguin. It is Chang's third book after the 1996 Thread of the Silkworm and the 1997 The Rape of Nanking.
Sucheng Chan. Sucheng Chan (simplified Chinese: 陈素真; traditional Chinese: 陳素真; pinyin: Chén Sùzhēn; born 1941) is a Chinese-American author, historian, scholar, and professor. She established the first full-fledged autonomous Department of Asian American Studies at a major U.S. research university and was the first Asian American ...
Maxine Hong Kingston. Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; [2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; [3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. [4] Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the ...
Asian American studies. Asian American Studies is an academic field originating in the 1960s, which critically examines the history, issues, sociology, religion, experiences, culture, and policies relevant to Asian Americans. It is closely related to other Ethnic Studies fields, such as African American Studies, Latino Studies, and Native ...
Kang-i Sun Chang(孫康宜) – writer and literary scholar. Lan Samantha Chang– writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Victoria Chang– poet, children's writer, and essayist. Ted Chiang(姜峯楠) – speculative fiction writer. Frank Chin(趙健秀) – novelist, playwright, and essayist. Marilyn Chin(陈美玲) – poet. Ben Fee ...