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287 U.S. News and World Report: U.S. News and World Report, July 24, 1995.
287 suspended all national-level elections: Murray A. Rubinstein, ed., Taiwan: A New History, p. 326.
287 ”the period of Communist rebellion”: Ibid., p. 327.
288 reign of ”White Terror”: Ibid., pp. 145, 330.
288 ”By grade school”: Author interview of Dick Ling, December 27, 2000.
289 ”That student got into deep, deep trouble”: Author interview of Carl Hsu, February 28, 2001.
289 ”You couldn’t even buy vacuum tubes then”: Author interview of Ching Peng, December 27, 2000.
291 Sayling Wen: Sayling Wen and Chin-chung Tsia, Taiwan Experience: How Taiwan Transformed Herself from Economic Difficulty to Economic Boom (Taipei, Taiwan: Locus Publishing Company, 1998), pp. 24-25.
291 40 percent of Taiwan’s income: Murray A. Rubinstein, ed., Taiwan: A New History, p. 328.
291 $100 million: Ibid., p. 325.
291 ”Turn your living room into a factory”: Sayling Wen and Chin-chung Tsia, p. 58.
292 The story of Taiwan’s economic miracle: Murray A. Rubinstein, ed., Taiwan: A New History, p. 374; Chun-Chieh Huang and Feng-fu Tsao, eds., Postwar Taiwan in Historical Perspective (Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 1998).
293 ”In schools, teachers taught us about the task”: Sayling Wen and Chin-chung Tsia, p. 45.
295 ”White people all looked alike”: Author interview with Ying-Ying Chang.
296 ”the sight of a hot dog”: Cai Nengying, ”Lu Meizhufu huajiachang (A Housewife Staying in America Talks About Household Matters),” in Huang Minghui, ed., Lu Mei Sanji (Notes on Staying in America) (Taipei: Zhengwen, 1971), pp. 34-35. As cited in R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee, Land without Ghosts, p. 219.
297 dared not spend even a few cents: Interview with Cheng-Cheng Chang in Palo Alto, California.
297 ”As I grew up in Taiwan”: E-mail from Albert Yu to author, March 13, 2000.
298 Huang Qiming: Him Mark Lai, ”China and the Chinese American Community: The Political Dimension,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1999, p. 15.
298 Chen Yuxi: Ibid., p. 15.
298 only one in four students returned: Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant Exiles?, p. 45.
299 Chia-ling Kuo: Chia-ling Kuo, ”The Chinese on Long Island: A Pilot Study,” Phylon 31:28 (1970), pp. 80-89, as cited in Ting Ni, ”Cultural Journey,” p. 185.
299 ”I would not let those ignorant people bother me”: Chia-ling Kuo, p. 286; Ting Ni, pp. 186-87.
299 ”great majority of Chinese- and Japanese-Americans”: ”Orientals Find Bias Is Down Sharply in U.S,” New York Times, December 13, 1970, as cited in Cheng-Tsu Wu, ed., ”Chink!,” p. 220.
300 Biographical information on Chang-Lin Tien: Kate Coleman, ”Reluctant Hero,” San Francisco Focus, December 1996.
303 Biographical information on David Lee: Author interview of David Lee.
305-6 ”Orientals are inordinately industrious”: James W. Chinn, EastlWest, December 2, 1970, as cited in Cheng-Tsu Wu, ed., ”Chink!,” pp. 231-37.
306 one in four Chinese American men sixteen years or older: L. Ling-chi Wang, ”Politics of Assimilation and Repression,” p. 472. By 1970, one-fourth of Chinese American men had college degrees, which was twice the national average. (Him Mark Lai, in Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas, p. 266.)
306 only 55 percent of that of white men: Ibid., p. 472.
306 five Asian American health inspectors: Cheng-Tsu Wu, ed., ”Chink!,” pp. 215, 232, 233.
307 ”he presumably lacked the ability to deal with the public”: Thomas Yang Chin and Shirley Takemorei, Third World News, December 7, 1970. As cited in Cheng-Tsu Wu, ed., ”Chink!,” p. 232.
307 ”I suppose you like to play the lotteries like all good Chinese”: Cheng-Tsu Wu, ed., ”Chink!,” p. 237. Original citation: Kai M. Lui, letter, East/West: The Chinese American Journal, September 1, 1970.
307 ”Oriental women had been trained to be subservient”: Frank Quinn, Fair Employment Practices Commission hearing transcript, December 10, 1970, p. 38.
307 only 2.5 percent: