Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community

AALDEF hosts a book party for Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic to celebrate their new book on Wed., Oct. 19th at The Little Magazine Cafe, 161 Hudson St. in New York.

On Wednesday, Oct. 19th, join the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic to celebrate their new book CHINESE AMERICA: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAS OLDEST NEW COMMUNITY at The Little Magazine Cafe, 161 Hudson St. in New York.

CHINESE AMERICA is a definitive portrait of Chinese Americans, one of the oldest immigrant groups and fastest-growing communities in the United States. Beginning with the stories of Chinese frontiersmen who came to the West Coast by the thousands in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing to the high-tech transnationals who have helped spark the development of todays booming Chinese American ethnoburbs, this engrossing narrative recounts stories of extraordinary hardship, discrimination, and success.

This landmark analysis draws on first-hand reporting in Asia and the U.S., offering a new picture of the countrys development. Kwong and Miscevic provide the first comprehensive report on the suburban immigrant communities that are transforming America. Urban ghettos continue to host some of the countrys poorest immigrants, but Chinese Americans now live in the suburbs in similar proportions to whites-and have brought with them Chinese supermarket chains, language schools, and growing clout in America and Asia. Exploring the burgeoning trade-and underlying conflicts-between China and the U.S., CHINESE AMERICA reveals the complex connections between immigration, globalization, and foreign policy.

The Little Magazine Cafe
161 Hudson St.
New York
6pm-8pm.
Discussion with book signing to follow. Refreshments provided.
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(Take the 1 train to Franklin Street or the A, C, E to Canal Street)

PETER KWONG is Professor of Asian American Studies at Hunter College and Professor of Sociology, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Kwong's previous books include FORBIDDEN WORKERS: Chinese Illegal Immigrants and American Labor, THE NEW CHINATOWN, and CHINATOWN NEW YORK: LABOR AND POLITICS 1930-1950. Kwong is a regular contributor to The Nation and The Village Voice. Dusanka Miscevic is a writer and translator with a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Both live in New York City.