Journey of A Young Man is a story of a thirteen-year old Chinese emigrant named Ken Lee and his experiences of growing up into adolescence in America. The here's Journey begins in rural China in 1951 during the turbulent times of the Korean War. He comes by way of Hong Kong to join his father, uncle and aunt in New York, while leaving his mother alone in China. Once in America Ken struggles against overwhelming odds in life, longing for his mother alone at home in China; despite personal misfortune amid larger impersonal events, unrequited young love, he was sustained by the hope that he...

Journey of A Young Man is a story of a thirteen-year old Chinese emigrant named Ken Lee and his experiences of growing up into adolescence in America. The here's Journey begins in rural China in 1951 during the turbulent times of the Korean War. He comes by way of Hong Kong to join his father, uncle and aunt in New York, while leaving his mother alone in China. Once in America Ken struggles against overwhelming odds in life, longing for his mother alone at home in China; despite personal misfortune amid larger impersonal events, unrequited young love, he was sustained by the hope that he...

In the Global Change Research Act of 1990, "global change" is defined as "changes in the global environment (including alterations in climate, land productivity, oceans or other water resources, atmospheric chemistry, and ecological systems) that may alter the capacity of the Earth to sustain life. " For the purposes of this book, we interpret the definition of global change broadly to include physical and chemical environmental changes that are likely to affect the productivity and health of forest ecosystems over the long term. Important environmental changes in the Northern United States...