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329 “I am NOT a Chinese American electrical engineer”: Lynn Pan, Sons of the Yellow Emperor, p. 278.
329 “I had never been around so many Asian faces”: Phoebe Eng, Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman’s Journey into Power (New York: Pocket Books, 1999), p. 91.
329 “Stop the Yellow Hordes”: Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore, p. 479.
330 East Coast Asian Student Union: Dana Y. Takagi, The Retreat from Race, pp. 26-27.
330 Information on Princeton, Brown, Stanford and Harvard: Ibid., pp. 27-29,30,33,39,41-42,67,69.
330 5 percent to 20 percent: Ibid., p. 21.
330 40 percent of the entering freshman class: Wallace Turner, “Rapid Rise in Students of Asian Origin Causing Problems at Berkeley Campus,” New York Times, April 6, 1981.
331 fell 21 percent: Dana Y. Takagi, The Retreat from Race, p. 25.
331 “a red light went on”: Linda Mathews, “When Being Best Isn’t Good Enough: Why Yat-Pang Au Won’t Be Going to Berkeley,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 19, 1987.
331 shocked to discover that Berkeley had turned away students with perfect GPAs: Dana Y. Takagi, The Retreat from Race, pp. 94, 109.
331 Yat-Pang Au: Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 19, 1987; Tamara Henry, “UC Revises Admissions Policies Amid Protests,” Associated Press, as printed in the Los Angeles Times, December 10, 1989; Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 19, 1987.
332 “I don’t hold it against them”: NBC Nightly News, July 26, 1989.
332 found UCLA guilty of bias: Dana Y. Takagi, The Retreat from Race, p. 9.
332 Lowell High School: Huping Ling, Surviving on the Gold Mountain, p. 171; Seattle Times, March 26, 1996; Asian Week, March 22, 2000; San Francisco Examiner, November 8, 1999, November 25, 1999, January 8, 2000.
333 “Asian applicants are competing with white applicants”: Daily Californian, October 8, 1987, as cited in Dana Y. Takagi, The Retreat from Race, p. 9.
333 “never been based on meritocratic standards”: A magazine, October /November 1995, p. 87.
Chapter Eighteen. Decade of Fear: The 1990s
336 “individuals from any country who express fear of persecution”: Marlowe Hood, “Dark Passage; Riding the Snake,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, June 13, 1993.
336 “political suicide”: Jing Qiu Fu, “Broken Portraits,” p. 45.
336 “make Chinese intellectuals as scapegoats”: Ibid., p. 42.
336 “China will definitely change”: Ibid., p. 55.
336 Chinese Student Protection Act: Him Mark Lai, “China and the Chinese American Community: The Political Dimension,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1999, p. 19.
337 “No sane person”: Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1974), p. 166.
337 70 percent of Hong Kong’s government doctors: Ibid., p. 35.
337 some 15 to 19 percent of Hong Kong émigrés: Ibid., p. 31.
337 605 Hong Kong residents: Ibid., p. 103.
337 estimated 1.5 million Canadian dollars: Ibid., p. 32.
338 soared from twenty thousand: Ibid., pp. 30, 103.
338 in excess of $30,000: Ibid., p. 55.
339 “empty wife”: Ibid., p. 11.
339 Jimmy Lai, Ronnie Chan, Frank Tsao, Tung Chee-hwa: Evelyn Iritani, “The New Trans-Pacific Commuters,” Sacramento Bee, February 9, 1997.
340 found it difficult to adjust: Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant Exiles?, p. 171.
340 “Hong Kong is a place which is famous for its materialistic glamour”: Alex C. N. Leung, Bulletin of the Hong Kong Psychological Society, No. 28-29, January-July 1992, p. 139.
341 “He starts gambling and smoking”: Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant Exiles?, p. 173.
341 “his marriage, his children”: Alex C. N. Leung, p. 142.
343 “You may be the best in your class”: Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California: The Educational Experience of Chinese Children in Transnational Families,” Educational Policy 12:6 (November 1998).
343 some thirty thousand to forty thousand Taiwanese students: Helena Hwang and Terri Watanabe, “Little Overseas Students from Taiwan: A Look at the Psychological Adjustment Issues,” master