"Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton" Background
This is a link to the homepage for a website about the history of Mississippi Delta Chinese grocers, the subject of my book, Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton.
… a significant contribution to the history of Chinese laundries…best told by someone like Jung who experienced a ‘laundry life,’ and understands its psychological impact on the Chinese laundrymen and their families...
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—Murray K. Lee, Curator, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
About John
Born in Macon, Georgia, where his immigrant parents from China, the only Chinese in the city, owned a laundry. After moving to California, he majored in psychology at U. C. Berkeley and went on to earn a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Author of several...
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