Gordon H Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 288450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon H Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon H |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG G H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present
Described by others as quaint and exotic, or as depraved and threatening, and, more recently, as successful and exemplary, the Chinese in America have rarely been asked to describe themselves in their own words. This superb anthology, a diverse and illuminating collection of primary documents and stories by Chinese Americans, provides an intimate and textured history of the Chinese in America from their arrival during the California Gold Rush to …
Introduction to The Chinese and the Iron Road
Author(s): Chang, Gordon H.; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher; Obernzinger, Hilton | Abstract: Excerpt from The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad, edited by Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, with Hilton Obenzinger and Roland Hsu
The Chinese and the Stanfords: Nineteenth-Century America’s Fraught Relationship with the China Men
This essay explores nineteenth-century America's complicated and often contradictory relationship with the Chinese who were brought to the American West as labor. In particular, the tensions between the political positions and personal experiences of Leland Stanford – railroad magnate, California governor, and founder of Stanford University – reflect the vexed attitudes encountered by the Chinese as they helped build the United States in the nine…
A Note for History
On this year’s May 10, 20,000 people from around the world gathered at Promontory Summit, Utah for the 150th commemoration of the “Golden Spike” ceremony that completed the first transcontinental r
Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia
Credited as the “architect” of the policy of containment against the Soviet Union, George F. Kennan emerges from this illuminating study as much less an enigmatic figure than the famous Mr. X, the mysterious by-line used for his 1947 Foreign Affairs essay (“The Source of Soviet Conduct”) that publicly marked the start of the Cold War. Paul J. Heer considers some sixty years of Kennan's views toward East Asia, though three-quarters of the book are…
Tribute to Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972–2018)
(2018). Tribute to Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972–2018) Amerasia Journal: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 124-147
Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875-1885
Not So Simple Life Choices
Not So Simple Life Choices Gordon H. Chang (bio) “Does my future lie in China or America?” So went the title of a 1936 national essay competition sponsored by the Ging Hawk Club in New York City’s Chinatown. The club, which had Christian church ties, gathered high school and college-age Chinese and addressed issues related to the politics and culture of contemporary China and life problems of the American-born generation.1 The provocative questio…
Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with China
Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether it is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in their future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America's long and varied preoccupation with China
Fragments of the Past: Archaeology, History, and the Chinese Railroad Workers of North America
Excerpt from East–West Interchanges in American Art: A Long and Tumultuous Relationship
Gordon Chang’s essay, excerpted from East–West Interchanges in American Art: A Long and Tumultuous Relationship, focuses on Zhang Shuqi, a Chinese-born artist who worked in the United States during the period of World War II and acted as a cultural diplomat for China. Zhang strongly influenced American mass culture by bringing methods of Chinese brush painting to a general audience. However, despite the popular “orientalist” association of Zhang’…
China and the Pursuit of America's Destiny: Nineteenth-Century Imagining and Why Immigration Restriction Took So Long
Traditional accounts of the exclusion of Chinese from America emphasize the racial, economic, cultural, and political hostility of whites and suggest that exclusion was an inexorable process. This essay, instead, asks why did exclusion legislation actually take a relatively long time to pass through Congress? The question helps re-cast our view of 19 th century Chinese immigration and leads us to appreciate the sentiment that welcomed the arrival…
The Many Sides of Happy Lim: Aka Hom Ah Wing, Lin Jian Fu, Happy Lum, Lin Chien Fu, Hom Yen Chuck, Lam Kin Foo, Lum Kin Foo, Hom, Lim Goon Wing, Lim Gin Foo, Gin Foo Lin, Koon Wing Lim, Henry Chin, Li…
Known to the FBI, INS, and IRS as Mr. Ah Wing Hom, he was also Lin Jian Fu, Jian Fu (Tough Guy), or just Fu to the readers of the many poems and short stories he published in Chinese over four decades in the twentieth century. And to still others, primarily English-readers of his writing, he was Happy Lim, an ironic, even tragically bizarre name, as his life was far from pleasant. On New Year's Day 1986, he died alone in a dingy San Francisco Chi…
Emerging from the Shadows: The Visual Arts and Asian American History
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970, the book from which this foreword is excerpted, is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by ten leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists. Aside from a few artists such as Dong Ki…
Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919-1933
Book Review| January 01 2009 Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919-1933 Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919-1933, Josephine Fowler. Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (2): 118–119. https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Nixon in China and Cold War I and Cold War II
The Many Sides of Happy Lim: Aka Hom Ah Wing, Lin Jian Fu, Happy Lum, Lin Chien Fu, Hom Yen Chuck, Lam Kin Foo, Lum Kin Foo, Hom, Lim Goon Wing, Lim Gin Foo, Gin Foo Lin, Koon Wing Lim, Henry Chin, Li…
Known to the FBI, INS, and IRS as Mr. Ah Wing Hom, he was also Lin Jian Fu, Jian Fu (Tough Guy), or just Fu to the readers of the many poems and short stories he published in Chinese over four decades in the twentieth century. And to still others, primarily English-readers of his writing, he was Happy Lim, an ironic, even tragically bizarre name, as his life was far from pleasant. On New Year's Day 1986, he died alone in a dingy San Francisco Chi…
Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
Book Review| April 01 2008 Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Moon-Ho Jung. Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 251–253. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.251 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gordon H. Chang; Cool…
Words Matter
The sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the bipolar Cold War world created havoc among international relations “realist” theorists. Theory failed to predict the end of the Soviet Union and offered little guidance on how to explain the transformation of the U.S.-Soviet relationship, the most important international security relationship for much of the twentieth century. Realist theory, with its focus on states as unitary actors tha…
Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961
January 01 2007 Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961 Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gordon H. Chang Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Journal of Cold War Studies (2007) 9 (1): 137–139. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2007.9.1.137 Cite Icon Cite P…
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
Book Review| January 01 2003 Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, Helen Zia. Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (2): 105–106. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501295 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gordon H. …
Whose "Barbarism"? Whose "Treachery"? Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States-Korea War of 1871
Journal Article Whose “Barbarism”? Whose “Treachery”? Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States—Korea War of 1871 Get access Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang associate professor of history at Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 4, March 2003, Pages 1331–1365, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092545 Published: 01 March 2003
Yukiko Koshiro. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999
What happened to the racism that flourished during the “war without mercy” after the Pacific War ended? This is the question tackled by this ambitious book. Racial prejudices and hatreds of all types persisted and even flourished, at times with a vengeance. Beneath the constructed and mutually acceptable post-war cooperative relationship that seemed to characterize United States-Japan relations, racial animosities on both sides of the Pacific fes…
Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects
Asian Americans have quite recently emerged as an increasingly important force in American politics. In 1996, more than 300 Asian and Pacific Americans were elected to federal, state, and local offices; today, more than 2,000 hold appointive positions in government. Asian American voices have been prominent in policy debates over such matters as education, race relations, and immigration reform. On a more discordant note, a national controversy w…
Growing up Nisei: Race, Generations, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49
Journal Article Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generations, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–49 Get access Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generations, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–49. By Yoo David K.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xiii + 244 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $42.50, cloth; $17.95, paper.) Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Stanford University Search for other …
To the Nuclear Brink: Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis
JFK, China, and the Bomb
Journal Article JFK, China, and the Bomb Get access Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1287–1310, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894411 Published: 01 March 1988
Fragments of the Past: Archaeology, History, and the Chinese Railroad Workers of North America
Whose "Barbarism"? Whose "Treachery"? Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States-Korea War of 1871
Journal Article Whose “Barbarism”? Whose “Treachery”? Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States—Korea War of 1871 Get access Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang associate professor of history at Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 4, March 2003, Pages 1331–1365, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092545 Published: 01 March 2003
Writing the History of Chinese Immigrants to America
Interview with Su Shaozhi, December 1985
Despite the proliferation of academic contacts between the United States and China in recent years, sustained public dialog is still a rarity. For this reason, the following exchange between Su Shaozhi, a leading Chinese political theorist, and six American writers is a notable achievement. Furthermore, the symposium spans a time period that includes Su's demotion from his position as head of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought (…
A repont on student protests at Beijing University
Four thousand Chinese students at the rally at Beijing University emotionally debated whether or not they should parade over to the special meeting of the country's leaders to protest what they believed was a Japanese economic invasion of China. After an hour of indecision the crowd agreed to confront the officials and surged toward the campus gates. Finding them locked, the students fumed, sang patriotic songs, and derisively hooted down school …
Perspectives on Marxism in China Today: An Interview with Su Shaozhi
The Cultural Revolution in China from the mid-1960s through the 1970s greatly impaired the study and development of Marxist thought in the most populous country in the world. Ironically, the avowed purpose of the upheaval had been to defend Marxism-Leninism from revisionism, but it was not until the latter part of the 1970s that the leaders of the Communist Party of China recognized that Chinese Marxism was in danger of becoming ossified and irre…
A repont on student protests at Beijing University
Four thousand Chinese students at the rally at Beijing University emotionally debated whether or not they should parade over to the special meeting of the country's leaders to protest what they believed was a Japanese economic invasion of China. After an hour of indecision the crowd agreed to confront the officials and surged toward the campus gates. Finding them locked, the students fumed, sang patriotic songs, and derisively hooted down school …
To the Nuclear Brink: Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis
JFK, China, and the Bomb
Journal Article JFK, China, and the Bomb Get access Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1287–1310, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894411 Published: 01 March 1988
Interview with Su Shaozhi, December 1985
Despite the proliferation of academic contacts between the United States and China in recent years, sustained public dialog is still a rarity. For this reason, the following exchange between Su Shaozhi, a leading Chinese political theorist, and six American writers is a notable achievement. Furthermore, the symposium spans a time period that includes Su's demotion from his position as head of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought (…
Forbidden City, U.S.A
Forbidden City, U.S.A. Prod. by Arthur Dong. DeepFocus Productions, 1989. 58 mins. (DeepFocus Productions, 4506 Palmero Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065) Get access Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1119–1120, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079162 Published: 01 December 1990
JFK Twenty-Five Years after Dallas
Playing for the Split
Forbidden Fruits
Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972
Journal Article Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948–1972. By Gordon H. Chang. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xiv + 383 pp. $25.00.) Get access Frank Ninkovich Frank Ninkovich St. John's University, Jamaica, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 384–385, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078231 Pub…
Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972
Turmoil in the Special Relationship: The Last Twenty Years of U.S.-China Relations
Asian Americans and the Writing of Their History
Research Article| May 01 1992 Asian Americans and the Writing of Their History Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (53): 105–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1992-53-105 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gordon H. Chang; Asian Americans and the Writing of Their History. Radical History Review 1 May 1992; 1992 (53):…
The Absence of War in the U.S.-China Confrontation over Quemoy and Matsu in 1954–1955: Contingency, Luck, Deterrence?
Gordon H. Chang, He Di; The Absence of War in the U.S.-China Confrontation over Quemoy and Matsu in 1954–1955: Contingency, Luck, Deterrence?, The American
Superman is about to visit the relocation centers” & the Limits of Wartime Liberalism
(1993). “Superman is about to visit the relocation centers” & the Limits of Wartime Liberalism. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 37-59
Indignities Suffered: The Wartime Experiences of Yamato Ichihashi and His Family”
“Indignities Suffered: The Wartime Experiences of Yamato Ichihashi and His Family”." Amerasia Journal, 19(1), pp. 161–162
History and Postmodernism
The growth in popularity of postmodern critical theory in the field of Asian American Studies provokes mixed feelings in me as a historian (and it is from the viewpoint of a historian specializing in Asian American history that I speak in this essay). There is much that is positive in the development but much that troubles me at the same time. As an interdisciplinary field, Asian American Studies can only benefit from the insights and originality…
Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi’s wartime writings, the only comprehensive first-person account of internment life by one of the 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who, in 1942, were sent by the U.S. government to “relocation centers,…
Who Benefited? Forty-five Years of U.S.-China Relations
The dramatic moment when President Richard M. Nixon stepped across the Shanghai tarmac to shake the hand of Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in September 1972 remains vividly etched in personal memory, which perhaps explains why it is startling to consider that more time has passed since that event than the years separating it from the founding of the People's Republic of China. The years of confrontation between China and the United States from 1949 t…
"Are There Other Ways to Think about the "Great Interregnum
A r e T h e r e O t h e r W a y s to T h i n k a b o u t t h e " G r e a t I n t e r r e g n u m " ? Gordon H. Chang Stanford University Sometime in the late 1950s while in p r i m a r y school in California, I participated in a m o d e l United Nations for students. Among the top- ics of o u r discussion w a s the admission of
Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
Journal Article Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942–1945 Get access Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942–1945. Edited by Chang Gordon H.. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiii + 552 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) Chris Friday Chris Friday Western Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Writing the History of Chinese Immigrants to America
Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
Part I. Yamoto Ichihashi: A Biographical Essay: 1. A man of whom the university can be proud 2. Son of the rising sun Part II. The Internment Documents, 1942-1945: 3. Standford-Santa Anita-Tule lake May 26, 1942-August 19 1942 4. Sharp park-Tule Lake August 20, 1942 - April 1, 1943 5. Tuke lake-Amache April 1, 1943-September 4, 1943 6. Amache: September 5, 1943-February 29, 1944 7. Amache: March 1, 1944-December 31, 1944 8. Amache-Stanford: Janua…
Growing up Nisei: Race, Generations, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49
Journal Article Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generations, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–49 Get access Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generations, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–49. By Yoo David K.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xiii + 244 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $42.50, cloth; $17.95, paper.) Gordon H. Chang Gordon H. Chang Stanford University Search for other …
Yukiko Koshiro. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999
What happened to the racism that flourished during the “war without mercy” after the Pacific War ended? This is the question tackled by this ambitious book. Racial prejudices and hatreds of all types persisted and even flourished, at times with a vengeance. Beneath the constructed and mutually acceptable post-war cooperative relationship that seemed to characterize United States-Japan relations, racial animosities on both sides of the Pacific fes…
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