Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South , 是一本关于早期华人在美国的历史。 这里特别提到1882年美国的排华法案。这一专门针对华人的种族歧视法案给华人带来深重的灾难，造成许多悲剧。
John Jung教授是这本书的作者， 他还以自己家庭背景讲述中国赴美早期移民情况。敬请同胞们出席，与John一起来追寻中国人移民美国的足迹。。。
A case study of history of Chinese immigration to the United States in the 1920s.
Date and Time: September 29, 2011 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: Joseph W. Jones Room, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, Georgia 30322-2870
halleinstitute.emory.edu
Lecture, Reception & Exhibition of APA History in the South
Meet the new 2011-2012 APA Historical Society Board
Suggested donation: $10; Free to students and seniors
RSVP required
Moderators: Yawei Liu, Director, Carter Center China Program and Tricia Sung, Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Historical Society.
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
Jung will be presenting a case study which describes some of the factors and processes by which as a retired Professor of Psychology, he searched for the history of his parents’ immigration to the United States in the 1920s. Jung’s discoveries led to further questions and more findings about the history of Chinese all over the U. S. and to the publication of four books. Jung’s talk will share some of the many rewarding experiences, often quite unexpected, that this endeavor has produced not only for him, but for many others as well.
ABOUT JOHN JUNG
John Jung was born in Macon , Georgia , where his immigrant parents operated a laundry for over 20 years prior to the civil rights era. They were the only Chinese in town, so it was difficult for him to understand, ethnically speaking, who he was while growing up. Even after moving to San Francisco an adolescent, it was still difficult to know what it meant to be a Chinese American because he was so different from the San Francisco Chinese who had lived so closely among other Chinese all of their lives.
In college Jung majored in psychology at U. C. Berkeley and went on to earn a Ph.D. at Northwestern University . Author of several academic textbooks, including a second edition in 2010 of "Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Behavior," Jung was a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach for 40 years. As he entered retirement, Jung published a memoir, Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South, in 2005 about the unique and challenging lives that his family had living in the segregated South where they were isolated from other Chinese. Soon he realized from responses from readers and audiences at book talks/signings all over the U. S. that here was an important type of story to preserve and share.
Jung never aspired to write more than one book about Chinese Americans, but in the course of doing research to further his understanding of how and why his parents ended up in Georgia, and how they were treated, Jung discovered the shameful history of anti-Chinese prejudices that he was never taught in American history and it inspired to write a second book, Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain, which discusses the critical role that laundries all over North America had in the economic survival of Chinese for many decades after they arrived.
During this new career in his retirement years, Jung has felt fortunate to have met many helpful Chinese who have provided invaluable information and contacts that led to the publication of two additional books, Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton, the story of the remarkable Chinese grocery store owners in the Mississippi Delta, and Sweet and Sour, a social history of the Chinese family restaurant and the lives of people in this iconic business for Chinese world wide.
All of these books explore how Chinese immigrants from the late 1800s until beyond the middle of the past century managed to overcome the hostile societal prejudices against Chinese and other "Orientals" and succeed running family businesses such as laundries, grocery stores, and restaurants all over the U. S. and Canada . Jung found these stories were inspiring examples of how these Chinese immigrants overcame difficult circumstances and achieved success that provided for their families, here and back in China . The goal of Jung's books has been to help record and preserve these stories of the contributions of the Chinese to American history.
Learn more about anti-Chinese immigration policies at www.1882project.org 
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