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PRAISE For "CHINESE LAUNDRIES"
…important window into the history of the early Chinese immigrants. . . The laundrymen faced struggles, challenges, and even disappointments; yet, the Chinese laundry became a valued and necessary enterprise … Sylvia Sun Minnick, SamFow: The San Joaquin Chinese Legacy and Stockton's Chinese Community … 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. . . Murray K. Lee, Curator of Chinese American History, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum … rewarding study of an era marked by invention born of dire necessity, an unforgiving host society that demanded Chinese laundrymen’s services but then punished them for being too good at it, … a long overdue analysis of a familiar experience hidden in plain sight. Mel Brown, Chinese Heart of Texas, The San Antonio Chinese Community, 1875-1975. … a welcome contribution to Chinese American studies that depicts the plight of early generations of Chinese caught in the predicament of operating laundries to provide for their families, ... while enduring extreme hardship and loneliness ... inclusion of historic documents, photographs, newspaper article excerpts, and revealing personal stories and insider observations from a few of the many who, like the author, grew up and worked in their family laundries. The subject deserves attention and further exploration in view of the significant impact that the laundry had not only on the Chinese American experience, but also in the social and cultural histories of the U.S. and Canada Joan S. Wang, Race, Gender, and Laundry Work: The Roles of Chinese Laundrymen and American Women in the United States, 1850–1950, Journal of American Ethnic History … a remarkable book...a comprehensive historical study of the Chinese laundries in the United States, a profound analysis of the psychological experiences of the Chinese laundrymen in America and their families in China; and above all, written by someone who has intimate experiences with the Chinese laundry, it is a tribute to those Chinese immigrants whose labor and sacrifice laid the foundation of the Chinese American community, and a testimony of the Chinese laundrymen’s resilience, resourcefulness, and humanity. Renqiu Yu, To Save China, To Save Ourselves, The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York. From the Foreword: What is remarkable is the combination of this historical perspective with his social psychological descriptions and analyses of laundrymen and their descendants. The personal life stories, with their inner thought, feeling, values, attitudes, work experiences and survival hardships, are skillfully presented with penetrating insights and observations. These perspectives present an overall picture of the history and the life and work of the laundrymen. Ban Seng Hoe, Curator of Asian Studies, Canadian Museum of Civilization  
LET US NOW PRAISE CHINESE LAUNDRYMEN
In search of Gold Mountain, you, your sons, and brothers came, Some helped forge the rail that links the land from coast to coast, Then, for problems not of your making, you were held to blame, Racism denied you basic rights and liberties accorded to most, You were taunted, assaulted, and then excluded from the land, Undaunted, you persevered and worked long hours into the night, Resourceful, you learned to survive by doing laundry by hand, For many, apart years from wife and children was your plight, You slaved, skimped, and saved to have money to send back, Resilient, you endured hardships with a determined attitude, Of courage, endurance, and determination, you did not lack, For which your children, and theirs, owe you lasting gratitude''
 If it is more convenient, Signed Copies are available at these sites. Museum of Chinese in the Americas 70 Mulberry St. New York ChinatownMuseum of Chinese in the Americas San Diego Chinese Historical Museum 404 Third Ave.San Diego Chinese Historical Museum Chinese Cultural Shop On Main Street of Historic Locke, Ca. 916-776-1661 Chinese Cultural Shop Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles, 425 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles Chinese American Museum Chinese American Museum of Chicago, 238 West 23rd St., Chicago, Il 60616 Chinese American Museum Golden Bough Vintage Books 571 Cotton Ave. Macon, Georgia (478) 474-2442 McCormick Book Inn 825 S Main St, Greenville, Ms. (662)332-9319 McCormick Book Inn Cotton Row Books 333 Cotton Row Cleveland, Ms. 38732 (662) 843-7083 China Town Enterprises 423 J St, Sacramento, Ca. 95814 (916) 448-6465 China Town Enterprises
SOUTHERN FRIED RICE: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South, is my account of how my parents ran their SAM LEE LAUNDRY in Macon, Georgia between 1928 and 1956, where we were the one and only Chinese family in the entire town.
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