Connie Y Chiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3989846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Connie Y Chiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Connie Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiang |
| SIGNATURE | CHIANG C Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9413-8820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Japanese American Dog Bait
Drawing on sensory, animal, environmental, and Japanese American history, this article explores Cat Island, Mississippi, site of a top-secret Army dog training program during the Second World War. Based on the theory that different races emitted distinct scents, the project attempted to train dogs to detect Japanese people, with the goal of deploying them in the Pacific theater. To develop the canine’s olfactory skills, the Army used Japanese Ame…
The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”
Nature Behind Barbed Wire
The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in US history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in ten desolate camps in the nation’s interior. Although scholars and commentators acknowledge the harsh environmental conditions of these camps, they have turned their attention to the social,…
Removal and Displacement
This chapter examines how Japanese Americans’ involvement in natural resource industries (farming and fisheries) shaped the campaign for their removal from the Pacific Coast in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Their intimate knowledge of these lands and waters grounded arguments to both expel and keep them. This chapter also explores Farm Security Administration (FSA) efforts to keep Japanese American land in production. Fearing a decl…
Environmental Patriotism
During the war, many natural resources and environmental activities were directly connected to the war effort. This chapter examines how Japanese Americans tried to show their patriotism and prove their loyalty to the United States by engaging with nature in these prescribed ways. These interactions often involved the production of food, with detainees planting victory gardens and working as sugar beet harvesters at a time when farms were experie…
Imprisoned Nature
Despite a recent surge in scholarship on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, few historians have adopted an environmental perspective. This article brings the natural world to the center of the story and demonstrates how the environment shaped this notorious episode in American history. The War Relocation Authority, the federal agency that oversaw the camps, tried to control Japanese Americans by isolating them in remote …
Shaping the Shoreline
On the shores of Monterey, California, land and ocean meet. In this community, people—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, Anglo, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Portuguese—likewise met, mingled, and clashed. Fishing and tourism had emerged as Monterey's two economic pillars by the late nineteenth century, and these two industries often conflicted, pointing to different futures for the community and its abundant natural resources. In Shaping the Sh…
Beyond Cannery Row
Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915–99 Get access Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915–99. By McKibben Carol Lynn. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 159 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $18.00, paper.) Connie Y. Chiang Connie Y. Chiang Bowdoin College Search for other works by this auth…
Landscapes of Conflict
Book Review| October 01 2006 Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000 Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000. William G. Robbins. Connie Chiang Connie Chiang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 472–474. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.4.472 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Connie Chiang; Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon…
Monterey- By- The- Smell
Monterey-by-the-Smell
In the first half of the twentieth century, fish odors created heated conflicts along the Monterey coastline. Few scholars in environmental history, however, have analyzed the significance of olfactory perceptions of the physical environment. This article examines two disputes in which odors became connected to larger power struggles over nature and society. The first conflict involved Chinese fishermen, whose squid-drying fields emitted unpleasa…
Novel Tourism
This article examines the evolution of tourism on Monterey's Cannery Row from the 1950s to the early 1970s. To revitalize this former sardine processing center, city officials, developers, and planners utilized the beauty of the coastline, the deteriorating built environment of the industrial era, and John Steinbeck's Cannery Row
Connie Y. Chiang on “Mother Nature's Drive-Thru”
Imprisoned Nature
Despite a recent surge in scholarship on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, few historians have adopted an environmental perspective. This article brings the natural world to the center of the story and demonstrates how the environment shaped this notorious episode in American history. The War Relocation Authority, the federal agency that oversaw the camps, tried to control Japanese Americans by isolating them in remote …
Monterey- By- The- Smell
The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”
Shaping the Shoreline
On the shores of Monterey, California, land and ocean meet. In this community, people—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, Anglo, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Portuguese—likewise met, mingled, and clashed. Fishing and tourism had emerged as Monterey's two economic pillars by the late nineteenth century, and these two industries often conflicted, pointing to different futures for the community and its abundant natural resources. In Shaping the Sh…
Monterey-by-the-Smell
In the first half of the twentieth century, fish odors created heated conflicts along the Monterey coastline. Few scholars in environmental history, however, have analyzed the significance of olfactory perceptions of the physical environment. This article examines two disputes in which odors became connected to larger power struggles over nature and society. The first conflict involved Chinese fishermen, whose squid-drying fields emitted unpleasa…
Connie Y. Chiang on “Mother Nature's Drive-Thru”
Monterey- By- The- Smell
Monterey-by-the-Smell
In the first half of the twentieth century, fish odors created heated conflicts along the Monterey coastline. Few scholars in environmental history, however, have analyzed the significance of olfactory perceptions of the physical environment. This article examines two disputes in which odors became connected to larger power struggles over nature and society. The first conflict involved Chinese fishermen, whose squid-drying fields emitted unpleasa…
Novel Tourism
This article examines the evolution of tourism on Monterey's Cannery Row from the 1950s to the early 1970s. To revitalize this former sardine processing center, city officials, developers, and planners utilized the beauty of the coastline, the deteriorating built environment of the industrial era, and John Steinbeck's Cannery Row
Landscapes of Conflict
Book Review| October 01 2006 Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000 Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000. William G. Robbins. Connie Chiang Connie Chiang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 472–474. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.4.472 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Connie Chiang; Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon…
Beyond Cannery Row
Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915–99 Get access Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915–99. By McKibben Carol Lynn. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 159 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $18.00, paper.) Connie Y. Chiang Connie Y. Chiang Bowdoin College Search for other works by this auth…
Shaping the Shoreline
On the shores of Monterey, California, land and ocean meet. In this community, people—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, Anglo, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Portuguese—likewise met, mingled, and clashed. Fishing and tourism had emerged as Monterey's two economic pillars by the late nineteenth century, and these two industries often conflicted, pointing to different futures for the community and its abundant natural resources. In Shaping the Sh…
Imprisoned Nature
Despite a recent surge in scholarship on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, few historians have adopted an environmental perspective. This article brings the natural world to the center of the story and demonstrates how the environment shaped this notorious episode in American history. The War Relocation Authority, the federal agency that oversaw the camps, tried to control Japanese Americans by isolating them in remote …
Nature Behind Barbed Wire
The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in US history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in ten desolate camps in the nation’s interior. Although scholars and commentators acknowledge the harsh environmental conditions of these camps, they have turned their attention to the social,…
Removal and Displacement
This chapter examines how Japanese Americans’ involvement in natural resource industries (farming and fisheries) shaped the campaign for their removal from the Pacific Coast in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Their intimate knowledge of these lands and waters grounded arguments to both expel and keep them. This chapter also explores Farm Security Administration (FSA) efforts to keep Japanese American land in production. Fearing a decl…
Environmental Patriotism
During the war, many natural resources and environmental activities were directly connected to the war effort. This chapter examines how Japanese Americans tried to show their patriotism and prove their loyalty to the United States by engaging with nature in these prescribed ways. These interactions often involved the production of food, with detainees planting victory gardens and working as sugar beet harvesters at a time when farms were experie…
The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”
Japanese American Dog Bait
Drawing on sensory, animal, environmental, and Japanese American history, this article explores Cat Island, Mississippi, site of a top-secret Army dog training program during the Second World War. Based on the theory that different races emitted distinct scents, the project attempted to train dogs to detect Japanese people, with the goal of deploying them in the Pacific theater. To develop the canine’s olfactory skills, the Army used Japanese Ame…
History (8 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Fishery (3 works) · Law (3 works)