Michael Luo

sense of otherizing that a lot of Asian Americans have experienced, this kind of perpetual foreigner syndrome that a lot of people talk about. And I was thinking about my kids. And I was born in the United States, and my kids are two generations removed from my parents' immigrant experience.

And I felt this kind of sadness inside me about, will they ever feel like they truly belong here in the United States? And then we had COVID, and then the surge in attacks on Asians during that period, and the Atlanta spa attacks particularly that happened in the spring of 2021. Eight or nine people were killed, I think, mostly Asian American women. It was a white shooter.

And I felt this kind of sadness inside me about, will they ever feel like they truly belong here in the United States? And then we had COVID, and then the surge in attacks on Asians during that period, and the Atlanta spa attacks particularly that happened in the spring of 2021. Eight or nine people were killed, I think, mostly Asian American women. It was a white shooter.

And I felt this kind of sadness inside me about, will they ever feel like they truly belong here in the United States? And then we had COVID, and then the surge in attacks on Asians during that period, and the Atlanta spa attacks particularly that happened in the spring of 2021. Eight or nine people were killed, I think, mostly Asian American women. It was a white shooter.

And it sparked this kind of moment, an awakening, I think, moment we've since moved on from as a country about anti-Asian violence. And it was in that period I wrote a piece for The New Yorker about this history. I'm an educated person. I'm— reasonably conscious of my Asian American identity. But I didn't know this history that is in this book.

And it sparked this kind of moment, an awakening, I think, moment we've since moved on from as a country about anti-Asian violence. And it was in that period I wrote a piece for The New Yorker about this history. I'm an educated person. I'm— reasonably conscious of my Asian American identity. But I didn't know this history that is in this book.

And it sparked this kind of moment, an awakening, I think, moment we've since moved on from as a country about anti-Asian violence. And it was in that period I wrote a piece for The New Yorker about this history. I'm an educated person. I'm— reasonably conscious of my Asian American identity. But I didn't know this history that is in this book.

And the thing that really caught my attention was a passage in our history that historians call the driving out, which happened in the 1885, 1886 range, when Nearly 200 communities in the American West physically, violently, in many cases, drove out the Chinese from their communities.

And the thing that really caught my attention was a passage in our history that historians call the driving out, which happened in the 1885, 1886 range, when Nearly 200 communities in the American West physically, violently, in many cases, drove out the Chinese from their communities.

And the thing that really caught my attention was a passage in our history that historians call the driving out, which happened in the 1885, 1886 range, when Nearly 200 communities in the American West physically, violently, in many cases, drove out the Chinese from their communities.

And I wrote about this in this piece, and I talked about how this precarity of the Asian American experience is not new. And that historical exploration from that piece is what set me on, I'm going to write a book about this. Yeah. So, you know, Asian American history is American history.

And I wrote about this in this piece, and I talked about how this precarity of the Asian American experience is not new. And that historical exploration from that piece is what set me on, I'm going to write a book about this. Yeah. So, you know, Asian American history is American history.

And I wrote about this in this piece, and I talked about how this precarity of the Asian American experience is not new. And that historical exploration from that piece is what set me on, I'm going to write a book about this. Yeah. So, you know, Asian American history is American history.

And I want, you know, all the dads who are reading about, you know, World War II to want to read a book about this, who are interested in Civil War literature, to read about this different racial conflagration that was going on during the Civil War, after the Civil War on the West Coast.

And I want, you know, all the dads who are reading about, you know, World War II to want to read a book about this, who are interested in Civil War literature, to read about this different racial conflagration that was going on during the Civil War, after the Civil War on the West Coast.

And I want, you know, all the dads who are reading about, you know, World War II to want to read a book about this, who are interested in Civil War literature, to read about this different racial conflagration that was going on during the Civil War, after the Civil War on the West Coast.

Yeah, the gold rush is where this really begins. It's not exactly clear what exactly was the chain of events specifically of when people in southeastern China and the Pearl River Delta arrived. heard about the gold rush and started to come en masse to the United States. There is this maybe apocryphal, but it's kind of part of the lore that was passed down in the Chinese community.

Yeah, the gold rush is where this really begins. It's not exactly clear what exactly was the chain of events specifically of when people in southeastern China and the Pearl River Delta arrived. heard about the gold rush and started to come en masse to the United States. There is this maybe apocryphal, but it's kind of part of the lore that was passed down in the Chinese community.

Yeah, the gold rush is where this really begins. It's not exactly clear what exactly was the chain of events specifically of when people in southeastern China and the Pearl River Delta arrived. heard about the gold rush and started to come en masse to the United States. There is this maybe apocryphal, but it's kind of part of the lore that was passed down in the Chinese community.

There was a story about a merchant who was here apparently 1847-ish, his name was Chung Ming, who'd arrived in America around 1847. And he was among the people who went into the Sierra Nevada foothills with the gold rush. This would have been really early for a Chinese merchant to be in the United States, but that's how the story goes.