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277 ”Through sheer will”: Letter, Louis Tsen to Grace Lee Boggs, May 22, 1996, in Grace Lee Boggs, Living for Change, p. xv.
277 Information on the social rise of the Chinese in the South comes from James W. Loewen, The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White (Prospect Heights, III.: Waveland Press, 1988, 1971).
278 Black civil rights leaders asked Chinese grocers for financial donations: Ibid., p. 171.
278 Sam Chu Lin: Author interview with Sam Chu Lin.
279 ”I didn’t go to the Chinese dances”: James W. Loewen, p. 160.
279 Sam Sue: Joann Faung Jean Lee, Asian American Experiences in the United States: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and Cambodia (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1991), pp. 3-9.
281 ”I had the impression that anything I wanted, I could get”: Carter Wiseman, I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990), p. 32.
281 ”I had heard that there was discrimination against Chinese”: Dr. An Wang with Eugene Linden, Lessons: An Autobiography (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1986), p. 32.
281 ”Frankly the United States seemed a lot like China to me”: Ibid., p. 33.
281 ”Science is the same the world over”: Ibid., p. 31.
281 started Wang Laboratories in 1951 with only $600: Ibid., p. 75.
281 took his company public in 1967: Charles Kenney, Riding the Runaway Horse: The Rise and Decline of Wang Laboratories (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992), p. 48.
281 Chin Yang Lee: Author interview with Chin Yang Lee; Heidi Benson, ”C. Y. Lee, Fortunate Son: Author of the Enduring ‘Flower Drum Song’ Is Grateful for ‘Three Lucks in My Life,’” San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 2002.
281 Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-ning Yang: New York Times, January 15, 1957.
282 Chien-Shiung Wu: New York Times, February 18, 1997; The Guardian, May 13,1997.
282 Shing-Shen Chern: McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), p. 201.
282 Chia-Chiao Lin: Chia-Chiao Lin and Frank H. Shu, ”On the Spiral Structure of Disk Galaxies,” Astrophysical Journal, no. 140, 1964; ”On the Spiral Structure of Galaxies II: Outline of a Theory of Density Waves,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, no. 55, 1966.
282 Tung-Yen Lin: MaryLou Watts, ”Prestressed Concrete Pioneer T. Y. Lin Named Cal’s Alumnus of Year,” CM (Construction Management) Magazine, March 16, 1995; David Pescovitz, ”Berkeley Engineers Changing Our World,” Lab Notes: Research from the College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, vol. 2, issue 6, August 2002; ”Builder of Bridges: Alumnus of the Year T. Y. Lin,” California Monthly, December 1994; files and correspondence from T. Y. Lin to author; ”Top People in the Past 125 Years,” Engineering News-Record 243:9, p. 27; ”Famed Structural Engineer T. Y. Lin Named Cal Alumni Association’s Alumnus of the Year,” Business Wire, December 19, 1994.
282 Min-Chueh Chang: Amy Zuckerman, ”M. C. Chang,” Worcester Magazine, July 27, 1988; Times (London), June 14, 1991; New York Times, June 7, 1991; Roy O. Greep’s comments at the memorial service for Min-Chueh Chang, October 10, 1991; letter from Isabelle C. Chang, widow of Min-Chueh Chang, to author, July 6, 1999. According to Ms. Chang, her husband was nominated for the Nobel Prize six times.
Chapter Sixteen. The Taiwanese Americans
283 ”number three” choice: Murray A. Rubinstein, ed., Taiwan: A New History (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999), p. 299.
283 between one million and two million refugees: Franklin Ng, p. 10.
285 ”desolate place both in literary and cultural terms”: Anna Chennault, The Education of Anna (New York: Times Books, 1980), p. 92.
286 about two thousand students were leaving Taiwan: Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1974), p. 45.
286 T. V. Soong: Leslie Chang, Beyond the Narrow Gate, p. 18; Stella Dong, Shanghai, 1842-1949,