Tate, Jeanne Choy

Jeanne Choy Tate, at age nineteen, crossed the American continent to find my identity and work as a live-in volunteer at the Cameron House mission in San Francisco's Chinatown. This marked the beginning of her lifelong involvement with Chinese culture and the Chinese-American experience. Through her roles as a bilingual-bicultural early childhood educator, a Presbyterian lay pastor, and a wife and mother in a biracial-bicultural family, she discovered that the interdependent values of Chinese cultural heritage are, in many ways, closer to values held by early biblical communities than those of...