Based largely on oral history interviews and through the focus on Atlanta, this book provides new insights into the rise of the new Chinese and Asian communities in the Southeast United States since US immigration policy changes in 1965. It looks at the history of the Chinese in the South in general and life of the Atlanta Chinese in particular in an effort to bring awareness to the multiplying Asian population in the Southeastern US. This book complements earlier studies of the Chinese in the South by James Loewen, Robert Seto Quan and Lucy M. Cohen. It provides a snapshot of the changes...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.