BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY SOURCES
This initial bibliograpy is of secondary sources -- of non-contemporary books and articles -- on Chinese in the Pacific Northwest. References to primary (i.e., contemporary) sources will be found in or after the relevant entries on other pages of this website. Many entries in this first batch of bibliographic entries comes from the website of the Chinese Americans in the Columbia River Basin Project. We have not read all of the books and articles involved but believe them to be a good starting point for those interested in northwesteren history. Other entries are currently being added. (July 2009).
OVERVIEW: CHINESE OUTSIDE CHINA
Pan, Lynn, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas. Singapore: Archipelago Press/ Landmark Books, 1998
Expensive, profusely illustrated, authoritative. Puts U.S. Chinese history in international perspective.NORTH AMERICA
Arkush, R. David and Leo O. Lee. Land Without Ghosts, Impressions of America, 1850-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Consisting of translations from Chinese, the book tells part of the other side of the story:. Chan, Anthony B. Gold Mountain. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1983
Immigration to North America from a Canadian point of viewChang, Iris. The Chinese in America. New York: Penguin Books, 2003
Modern classic. Opinionated, perceptive, strongly written.Chen, Jack. The Chinese of America. Harper & Row: San Francisco, 1980
Intelligent and original. One of the best general books on the subject.Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990.
Chinese immigration in the context of policies and other immigrant groupsLee, Rose Hum. The Chinese in the United States of America. Hong Kong University Press, 1960.
Earlier classic: the first book-length study of Chinese Americans by a Chinese AmericanSeward, George F. Chinese Immigration in its Social and Economic Aspects. Scribners: New York, 1881
Even earlier classic. The first book-length study of Chinese Americans by anyone. Available free online, atBRITISH COLUMBIA
Chow, Lily. Sojourners in the North. Prince George, B.C., Vaitlin Press, 1996.
Lai, David Chuenyan and Pamela Madoff. Building and Rebuilding Harmony: The Gateway to Victoria's Chinatown. Victoria: University of Victoria, 1997.
Roy, Patricia E. White Man's province: British Columbia and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 1858-1914. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989.
Wynne, Robert E. "American Labor Leaders and the Vancouver Anti-Oriental Riot." Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol 57 no 4, Oct 1966, pp 172-179.
Yorath, Chris. A Measure of Value: The Story of the D'Arcy Island Leper Colony. Victoria/Surrey B.C.: Touchwood Editions, 2000.
IDAHO
Buell, Paul D. and Christopher Muench. “ A Chinese Apothecary In Frontier Idaho,” The Annals of The Chinese Historical Society of The Pacific Northwest, 1983.
Derig, Betty. “Celestials in the Diggings,” Idaho Yesterdays 16:2, 1972.
James, Ronald L. “Why No Chinamen Are Found in Twin Falls,” Idaho Yesterdays 36:4,1993.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel San Francisco: Design Enterprises of San Francisco, 1981.
Simon-Smolinski, Carole. “Idaho’s Chinese Americans,” in Mercier, Laurie and Carol Simon-Smolinski, editors, Idaho’s Ethnic Heritage: Historical Overviews. Vol. 1. Boise: Idaho Centennial Commission and Idaho State Historical Society, March, 1990.
Wunder, John. “The Courts and the Chinese In Frontier Idaho,” Idaho Yesterdays 25:1,1881.
Zhu, Liping. “How the Other Half Lived: Chinese Daily Life in Boise Basin Mining Camps,” IdahoYesterdays 38:4, 1995.
Zhu, Liping. A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier. Denver: University of Colorado Press, 2000
NEVADA
Ching, Sue Fawn and Elmer Ursco. "The Anti-Chinese Riot in Tonopah, Nevada, 1903." Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 2003, pp 35-45.
Lai, Him Mark. "The 1903 Anti-Chinese Riot in Tonopah, Nevada from a Chinese Perspective: Two Letters." Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 2003, pp 47-51.
NORTHWEST GENERAL
Wunder, John R. “The Chinese and the Courts in the Pacific Northwest: Justice Denied.” Pacific Historical Review 52 (1983).
Dirlik, Arif, editor. Chinese on the American Frontier. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Litttlefield, 2001.
MONTANA, WYOMING, DAKOTAS
Zhu, Liping and Rose Estep Fosna. Ethnic Oasis: The Chinese in the Black Hills, Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2004.
OREGON
Clark, Hugh. Portland’s Chinese: The Early Years. Portland: Center for Urban Education, 1975.
Ho, Nelson, Chia-chi. Portland’s Chinatown: The History of An Urban District. Portland: Bureau of Planning, City of Portland, 1978.
Wong, Marie Rose. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.
WASHINGTON
Akerlund, Drew. “Walla Walla’s Chinese Population: the History of Walla Walla’s Chinatown 1862-1962.” The Annals of The Chinese Historical Society of The Pacific Northwest, 1984
Chin, Art. Golden Tassels, A History of the Chinese in Washington, 1857-1992. Seattle: Art Chin, 1992.
Chew, Ron and Cassie Chin. Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans, The First Hundred Years. Seattle: Wing Luke Museum, 2003.
Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.
Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990.
Daniels, Roger. “Outsiders in ‘the Land of the Free’ Aspects of the Asian-American Experience in the Northwest.” Columbia 10:4 (Fall, 1996).
Dougher, Sarah. Sent out on the Tracks They Built: Sinophobia in Olympia, 1886. Olympia, WA: S. Dougher and N. McClure, 19.8.
Hildebrand, Lorraine Barker. Straw Hats, Sandals and Steel, The Chinese in Washington State. Tacoma: Washington State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1977.
Jue, Willard G. and Silas G. Jue. “Goon Dip: Entrepreneur, Diplomat, and Community Leader,” The Annals of The Chinese Historical Society of The Pacific Northwest, 1984.
Nomura, Gail. "Washington’s Asian/Pacific American Communities,” in Sid White and S. E. Solberg, editors. Peoples of Washington: Perspectives on Cultural Diversity. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1989.
