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Foreword to Volume 46

By Dr. William Gow

Forgotten Foundations: Los Angeles’ Chinese American Community Historians, 1975-1984

by Dr. William Gow

VOICES OF PARTICIPANTS: “I knew so little about Chinese American history”

Margie Lew

“It was important to start interviewing old-timers”

Emma Louie

“I became more distinctly aware of an Asian American identity”

Dr. June Mei

“I want to know about the Chinese in L.A.”

Suellen Cheng

“They were very much focused on Asian American issues”

Dr. Jean Wong

“Community relevance is important in academia”

Dr. Munson Kwok

“We realized that our history needs to be written in a way that makes up for the previous erasures”

Eugene Moy

“These projects were produced for ourselves”

Russell Leong

“Oral histories are a fundamental part of learning and writing history”

Dr. Sucheta Mazumdar

“Linking Our Lives would be the foremost ethnographic study on Asian American women”

Marjorie Lee

“It was inventive bringing together of people and resources”

Susie Ling

REFLECTIONS OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION: “The themes of discrimination, stereotypes, familial expectations, and cultural adaptation echo my own struggle”

Kiana Kim

“Linking Our Lives opened my eyes to my place within a larger Asian American history”

Yi-Shen Loo

“I found a connection to Chinese American history that I had long given up on”

Samuel Yee

“Linking Our Lives presented a foundation for which I could begin to build my relationship with Chinese American history”

Annalisse Harlow

About This Issue

Introduction from Eric Wat 屈春華, Guest Editor

Doreena Wong, Esq.

Young Buck Gee 朱伯掦

Matthew Yee 易暐翔

Karen Yin 尹嘉玲

Curtis Chin 陳國材

Russell Leong 梁志英: Pacific Overtures: Destiny, Disease, and Desire

Dr. Jih-Fei Cheng 鄭志飛

Volume 44, 2022 - Resisting Racism: We Are in This Together

Bing Get Yee 余永盛, Insurance Broker

by Calvin Yee 余威棋

Editor’s Introduction

By Benjamin “Benji” Chang 張尊理, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Volume 44, 2022 - Resisting Racism: We Are in This Together

Some Massacres and Race Riots, Know Their Names

Volume 44, 2022 - Resisting Racism: We Are in This Together

Report on Anti-Asian Hate Crime

By Marshall Wong 黄道正

Volume 44, 2022 - Resisting Racism: We Are in This Together

We Are in This Together

Volume 44, 2022 - Resisting Racism: We Are in This Together

The 1871 Los Angeles Massacre Reviewed

By Dr. Gay Q. Yuen 阮桂銘

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LA vs. Hate

By Rick Eng 伍健迕

Volume 44, 2022 - Resisting Racism: We Are in This Together

New 626 Generation

By Amy J. Wong 黃佳欣

Volume 44, 2022 - Resisting Racism: We Are in This Together

From Rock Springs to Ventura

By Ricky 廖啓輝 and Grace Leo 廖陳淑芬

Volume 44, 2022 - Resisting Racism: We Are in This Together

A Lost Chinatown at Santa Barbara

By Raymond Douglas Chong 张伟明

Foreword for GSJ 2020

– by Dr. Benjamin Chang, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Introduction: Fated Relationships

– by Albert Lowe, Archivist for CHSSC’s Duty and Honor Collection

Distinguished Flying Cross

– Fred Gong, Jr. (1923-2017)

Hell on Wheels to Berlin

– Harry S. Gee (1921–2007)

Army Cook on Solomon Islands

– Jay Sue Nin (1912?–2006)

Navy Gunner on Iwo Jima

– Jim Wah Gee (1926–2004)