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Acknowledgments M y work on contemporary Chinese America started in graduate school in the mid-1980s. Reflecting on my career as a scholar, researcher, and teacher, I realize that I am so deeply indebted to so many individuals and institutions that it is impossible to acknowledge every single name. First and foremost, I thank my graduate mentor, John R. Logan, for his trust, guidance, encouragement, and friendship. John also helped pull me out of a state of loss and hopelessness when I was stranded in Europe in 1989, unable to return to China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square events. He guided me onto a professional path in the U.S. academy. Nan Lin opened my eyes to a whole new world of sociology in 1982 when he visited Sun Yatsen University. He showed me the way to graduate studies in the United States and provided the practical support that allowed me to settle comfortably in graduate school at SUNY–Albany. Alejandro Portes has always been an inspiration and a tremendous role model, as well as a mentor, collaborator , and friend. I sincerely thank the numerous colleagues, friends, and students in the United States who have offered thoughtful critiques, innovative suggestions, instrumental assistance, and moral support: Richard D. Alba, Carl L. Bankston III,Frank D.Bean,Yanjie Bian,Wenhong Chen,Lucie Cheng,Elie Chrysostome , Angie Y. Chung, Paula England, C. Cindy Fan, M. Patricia FernandezKelly , Nancy Foner, William H. Form, J. V. Gatewood, Margaret A. Gibson, Yoshinori Kamo, Philip Kasinitz, Rebecca Y. Kim, Susan S. Kim, Him Mark Lai, Jennifer Lee, Russell Leong, Minghuan Li, Wei Li, Zai Liang, Ivan Light, Howard X. Lin, Jan Lin, Huping Ling, Jinqi Ling, Haiming Liu, Harry H. Liu, David Lopez, Ram Mahalingam, Douglas S. Massey, Pyong Gap Min, Don Nakanishi , Victor Nee, Franklin Ng, Regina Nordquist, Paul Ong, Kyeyoung Park, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Myungduk Cho Sakong, Glenna Spitze, Carola SuárezOrozco , Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Wanning Sun, Betty Lee Sung, Todd Swanstrom, Roger Waldinger, Ling-chi Wang, Zuoyue Wang, Scott Waugh, Yu Xie, Yang Sao Xiong, Philip Q. Yang, Fenggang Yang, Xiaohuang Yin, Xiaojian Zhao, and Yu Zhou. I also thank my collaborators and colleagues outside the United States: Guoxuan Cai, Minghuan Li, Qirong Li, Xiyuan Li, Minggang Lin, Hong Liu, Liben Qiu, Yan-Fen Tseng, Ning Wang, Xiaohui Wang, Shaocong Zeng, Xiuming Zhang, and Guotu Zhuang. My students Amy Chai, Ly P. Lam, Angela Sung, Cindy Wang, and Jane Yu contributed tremendous technical and research assistance. I am especially grateful to members of my ethnic community , most of whom are post-1965 immigrants working or living in Chinatowns and Chinese ethnoburbs. They are unsung heroes whose values, ethos, optimism , actions, and activism inspire, orient, and motivate me and many others. They have assisted me in many different ways, offering their time and home space for interviews and observations and opening their hearts to share with me their personal stories of hardship and joy, and their determination and sense of identity. I would like to acknowledge the institutional support from the University at Albany during my graduate career, Louisiana State University, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The California Policy Research Center, UCLA’s Academic Senate, the Social Sciences Division of the College of Letters and Science , Asian American Studies Center, Center for International Business Education and Research, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (formerly the Institute of Industrial Relations), Department of Sociology, and Department of Asian American Studies provided research grants. The Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (2005–2006), U.S. Department of Education (2000–2001), and Russell Sage Foundation (1994–1995) offered resident fellowships. This project could not have happened in the first place without Janet Francendese , editor-in-chief of Temple University Press (TUP). Janet’s vision of the possibilities of Chinese American Studies and her enthusiasm, encouragement, and editorial insight have made this project as intellectually challenging as it was fun. I am grateful to TUP’s series advisor Linda Trinh Võ and TUP’s anonymous reviewers, who offered critical and constructive comments and suggestions. Much appreciation also goes to TUP’s editorial assistant Emily Taber and production editor Lynne Frost and to my copyeditor, Jane Barry, who read and edited the entire manuscript carefully, with her sharp eyes on substantive matters, intelligent input, excellent attention to detail, and meticulous treatment of words and style. Last—but certainly not least—I thank my husband, Sam Nan Guo, my son...

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