Yin and Yang Press | Yin and Yang Press
Feb.04.2010
Sweet and Sour examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business around the end of the 19th century? What conditions made it possible for Chinese to open and succeed in operating restaurants after they emigrated to North...
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May.03.2009
The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white...
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Jun.15.2008
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business...
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Jun.15.2008
Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South is my memoir about my immigrant parents and their children and their social and cultural isolation running a laundry in the Deep South from just before the Great Depression until the early 1950s where they were the only Chinese in...
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