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322
“I don’t like you because you’re Vietnamese”:
Seth Effron, “Racial Slaying Prompts Fear, Anger in Raleigh,”
Greensboro News and Record,
September 24, 1989.

323
Chen Wencheng:
Him Mark Lai, “China and the Chinese American Community: The Political Dimension,”
Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1999,
p. 16;
Newsweek,
August 3, 1981; British Broadcasting Corporation, August 4, 1981.

323
Henry Liu:
For a detailed account and analysis of the events that led to the Liu murder, see David E. Kaplan,
Fires of the Dragon: Politics, Murder and the Kuomintang
(New York: Atheneum, 1992.)

324
David Lam:
Chris Rauber, “Tech Pioneer Signs On as CEO of Startup,”
San Francisco Business Times,
May 9, 1997; “David Lam Joins Tru-Si Technologies, Inc. as Chairman of the Board,”
Business Wire,
April 28, 1999; interview with David Lam by Joyce Gemperlein and Sandra Ledbetter for the Tech Museum of Innovation’s “The Revolutionaries” series, a joint project with the
San Jose Mercury News
in 1997.

324
David Wang:
Author interview of David Wang;
Applied Matters,
April 1993; Kristin Huckshorn, “If It’s Here, It Must Be History; Smithsonian Enshrines 1987 Chip Machine,”
San Jose Mercury News,
March 4, 1993.

324
John Tu and David Sun:
Michael Lyster, “$1 Billion and Counting,”
Orange County Business Journal,
January 1-7, 1996; “Doing the Right Thing,”
The Economist,
May 20, 1995; Greg Miller, “Memory Makers,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 16, 1995.

324
Pehong Chen:
“8 of 9 Newbies to Forbes 400 Super-Rich List Are Asians,”
Business Times,
September 20, 2000; “Code Warriors: The Forbes 400,”
Forbes,
October 9, 2000.

324
Charles Wang:
Dan Barry, “Computer Mogul Refines His Game; Facing Rough Times, Charles Wang Tries a New Style,”
New York Times,
February 4, 1997; John Teresko, “The Magic of Common Sense: How CEO Charles Wang Took Software Maker Computer Associates from Start-up to $3.5 Billion,”
Industry Week,
July 15, 1996; Amy Cortese, “Sexy? No. Profitable? You Bet. Software Plumbing Keeps Computer Associates Hot,”
Business Week,
November 11, 1996.

324
“ethnoburbs”:
Wei Li, “Building Ethnoburbia: The Emergence and Manifestation of the Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Valley,”
Journal of Asian American Studies,
February 1999.

325
“Say I am Chinese”:
Origins & Destinations,
pp. 220-21.

325
more than one-third of Monterey Park’s population:
San Diego Union Tribune,
January 10, 1999.

325
more than one-quarter in the nearby communities:
Ibid.

325
largest suburban concentration of ethnic Chinese:
Wei Li, “Anatomy of a New Ethnic Settlement: The Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles,”
Urban Studies
35:3 (1998), p. 480.

325
“I feel like I’m in another country”:
Mark Arax, “Selling Out, Moving On,”
Los Angeles Times,
April 12, 1987.

325
“I feel like a stranger in my own town”:
Ibid.

325
“Will the Last American”:
“English Spoken Here, OK?,”
Time,
August 25, 1985; Ronald Takaki,
Strangers from a Different Shore,
p. 425.

325
Anti-Chinese jokes: Timothy Fong,
The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994), p. 71.

326
vandals attacked Chinese-owned movie theaters:
Ibid., p. 69.

326
“First it was the real estate people”:
Timothy Fong, p. 48; Andrew Tanzer, “Little Taipei,”
Forbes,
May 1985, p. 69.

327
“HOW TO BE A PERFECT TAIWANESE KID”:
Franklin Ng,
The Taiwanese Americans
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988), p. 42.

328
Newsweek
ran a favorable article:
Martin Kasindorf with Paula Chin in New York, Diane Weathers in Washington, Kim Foltz in Detroit, Daniel Shapiro in Houston, Darby Junkin in Denver, and bureau reports, “Asian Americans: A ‘Model Minority,’”
Newsweek,
December 6, 1982.

328 MacNeil/Lehrer...
and
NBC Nightly News:
Ronald Takaki,
Strangers from
a
Different Shore,
p. 474.

328
60 Minutes:
“The Model Minority,”
60 Minutes,
CBS, February 1, 1987.

329
MIT, UCLA, and UCI nicknames:
Ronald Takaki,
Strangers from a Different Shore,
p. 479; Frank H. Wu, p. 48.

329
“Orient Express”:
Dana Y. Takagi,
The Retreat from Race: Asian American Admissions and Racial Politics
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992 and 1998), p. 60.

329
“What do
you
think I
am,
Chinese?”:
Frank H. Wu,
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White,
p. 48.

329
“I am NOT a Chinese American electrical engineer”:
Lynn Pan, Sons
of the Yellow Emperor,
p. 278.

329
“I had never been around so many Asian faces”:
Phoebe Eng,
Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman’s Journey into Power
(New York: Pocket Books, 1999), p. 91.

329
“Stop the Yellow Hordes”:
Ronald Takaki,
Strangers from a Different Shore,
p. 479.

330
East Coast Asian Student Union:
Dana Y. Takagi,
The Retreat from Race,
pp. 26-27.

330
Information on Princeton, Brown, Stanford and Harvard:
Ibid., pp. 27-29,30,33,39,41-42,67,69.

330
5 percent to 20 percent:
Ibid., p. 21.

330
40 percent of the entering freshman class:
Wallace Turner, “Rapid Rise in Students of Asian Origin Causing Problems at Berkeley Campus,”
New York Times,
April 6, 1981.

331
fell 21 percent:
Dana Y. Takagi,
The Retreat from Race,
p. 25.

331
“a red light went on”:
Linda Mathews, “When Being Best Isn’t Good Enough: Why Yat-Pang Au Won’t Be Going to Berkeley,”
Los Angeles Times Magazine,
July 19, 1987.

331
shocked to discover that Berkeley had turned away students with perfect GPAs:
Dana Y. Takagi,
The Retreat from Race,
pp. 94, 109.

331
Yat-Pang Au:
Los Angeles Times Magazine,
July 19, 1987; Tamara Henry, “UC Revises Admissions Policies Amid Protests,” Associated Press, as printed in the
Los Angeles Times,
December 10, 1989;
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, July 19, 1987.

332
“I don’t hold it against them”:
NBC Nightly News,
July 26, 1989.

332
found UCLA guilty of bias:
Dana Y. Takagi,
The Retreat from Race,
p. 9.

332
Lowell High School:
Huping Ling,
Surviving on the Gold Mountain,
p. 171;
Seattle Times,
March 26, 1996;
Asian Week,
March 22, 2000;
San Francisco Examiner,
November 8, 1999, November 25, 1999, January 8, 2000.

333
“Asian applicants are competing with white applicants”:
Daily Californian,
October 8, 1987, as cited in Dana Y. Takagi,
The Retreat from Race,
p. 9.

333
“never been based on meritocratic standards”:
A magazine, October /November 1995, p. 87.

336
“individuals from any country who express fear of persecution”:
Marlowe Hood, “Dark Passage; Riding the Snake,”
Los Angeles Times Magazine,
June 13, 1993.

336
“political suicide”:
Jing Qiu Fu, “Broken Portraits,” p. 45.

336
“make Chinese intellectuals as scapegoats”:
Ibid., p. 42.

336
“China will definitely change”:
Ibid., p. 55.

336
Chinese Student Protection Act:
Him Mark Lai, “China and the Chinese American Community: The Political Dimension,”
Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1999,
p. 19.

337
“No sane person”:
Ronald Skeldon, ed.,
Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
(Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1974), p. 166.

337
70 percent of Hong Kong’s government doctors:
Ibid., p. 35.

337
some 15 to 19 percent of Hong Kong émigrés:
Ibid., p. 31.

337
605 Hong Kong residents:
Ibid., p. 103.

337
estimated 1.5 million Canadian dollars:
Ibid., p. 32.

338
soared from twenty thousand:
Ibid., pp. 30, 103.

338
in excess of $30,000:
Ibid., p. 55.

339
“empty wife”:
Ibid., p. 11.

339
Jimmy Lai, Ronnie Chan, Frank Tsao, Tung Chee-hwa:
Evelyn Iritani, “The New Trans-Pacific Commuters,”
Sacramento Bee,
February 9, 1997.

340
found it difficult to adjust:
Ronald Skeldon, ed.,
Reluctant Exiles?,
p. 171.

340
“Hong Kong is a place which is famous for its materialistic glamour”:
Alex C. N. Leung,
Bulletin of the Hong Kong Psychological Society,
No. 28-29, January-July 1992, p. 139.

341
“He starts gambling and smoking”:
Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant
Exiles?,
p. 173.

341
“his marriage, his children”:
Alex C. N. Leung, p. 142.

343
“You may be the best in your class”:
Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California: The Educational Experience of Chinese Children in Transnational Families,”
Educational Policy
12:6 (November 1998).

343
some thirty thousand to forty thousand Taiwanese students:
Helena Hwang and Terri Watanabe, “Little Overseas Students from Taiwan: A Look at the Psychological Adjustment Issues,” master’s thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, 1990; Chong-Li Edith Chung, “An Investigation of the Psychological Well Being of Unaccompanied Taiwanese Minors/Parachute Kids in the United States,” Ph.D. dissertation in counseling psychology, University of Southern California, December 1994, p. 1.

344
approximately ten thousand of them:
S. Y. Kuo,
Research on Taiwanese Unaccompanied Minors in the United States
(Taipei: Institute of American Culture, Academia Sinica), as cited in Chong-Li Edith Chung, p. 1.

344
allowances of $4,000 or more a month:
Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”

344
162 Taiwanese adolescents:
Chong-Li Edith Chung, pp. x, 87, 88.

344
“It looks happy on the outside”:
Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”

345
about
$15,000
a year: Ibid.

345
about
$40,000:
Ibid.

345
“If they’re going to dump me here”:
D. Hamilton, “A House, Cash and No Parents,”
Los Angeles Times,
June 24, 1993, p. A16.

345
“work hard, to focus”:
Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”

345
fax them copies of report cards:
Ibid.

346
detonated a homemade bomb:
Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”

346
charged with arms smuggling:
Ibid.

346
San Marino school district:
Chong-Li Edith Chung, p. 47.

346
Kuan Nan “Johnny” Chen:
Jeff Wong, “‘Parachute Kids’: Latchkey Kids with Cash Vulnerable to Trouble,” Associated Press, May 15, 1999;
NBC Nightly News,
January 9, 1999.

346-47
two out of three abductions:
San Diego Union-Tribune,
January 10, 1999.

347
nine out of ten:
Associated Press, May 15, 1999.

347
About 80 percent:
Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”

347
paid $19,000 each:
Maggie Farley, “Shanghai Youths Test Welcome Mat in US,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 3, 1999, p. A1.

347
“In China, we can have only one child”:
Ibid.

349
40 percent of the country’s assets:
Edward N. Wolff, “Recent Trends in Wealth Ownership,” a paper for the Conference on Benefits and Mechanisms for Spreading Asset Ownership in the United States, New York University, December 10-12, 1998; Edward N. Wolff,
Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It
(New York: New Press, 1996); “A Scholar Who Concentrates ... on Concentrations of Wealth,”
Too Much,
Winter 1999.

349
lost 80 percent of their net worth:
Edward N. Wolff, “Recent Trends in Wealth Ownership,” table 2, “The Size Distribution of Wealth and Income, 1983-1997.”

351
Sources on Jerry Yang:
A
magazine, June/July 2000, p. 10. “Yahoo,” (chapter 10), in David Kaplan,
The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams
(New York: William Morrow, 1999); “Jerry Yang Yahoo! Finding Needles in the Internet’s Haystack,” (chapter 6), in Robert H. Reid,
Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days That Built the Future of Business
(New York: John Wiley, 1997).