Nominations for the 2024-2025 Book Awards are Now Closed Learn More Book Awards Each year, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) recognizes authors and contributors in its book awards for titles of merit published in history, social science, creative writing, and humanities and cultural studies. Book Award Winners – 2024 (Seattle) Creative Writing: Poetry OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Indecent Hours by James Fujinami Moore HONORABLE MENTION: Customs by Solmaz Sharif HONORABLE MENTION: All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran Creative Writing: Prose OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Nuclear Family by Joseph Han HONORABLE MENTION: Mother Ocean Father Nation by Nishant Batsha History OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire by Helen Jin Kim HONORABLE MENTION: Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State by Moon-Ho Jung HONORABLE MENTION: Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898-1946 by Tessa Winkelmann Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Work OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia by Y-Dang Troeung HONORABLE MENTION: Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 by Jeannie Shinozuka HONORABLE MENTION: Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim Literary Studies OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Minor Salvage by Stephen Hong Sohn HONORABLE MENTION: Pedagogies of Woundedness by James Kyung-jin Lee Media, Performance, and Visual Studies OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium by Mila Zuo HONORABLE MENTION: Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity by Takeo Rivera Social Sciences OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Contesting the Last Frontier: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian Americans by Pei-Te Lien and Nicole Filler HONORABLE MENTION: The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program by Pallavi Banerjee Book Award Winners – 2023 (Long Beach, CA) Creative Writing: Poetry OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Susan Nguyen, Dear Diaspora (Nebraska) Creative Writing: Prose OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Eugene Lim, Search History (Coffee House) HONORABLE MENTION — Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay (Coffee House) Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Lily Cho, Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens (McGill-Queens) HONORABLE MENTION — Neel Ahuja, Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century (University of North Carolina) HONORABLE MENTION — Ma Vang, History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies (Duke University Press) History OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Eric C. Wat, Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (University of Washington) HONORABLE MENTION — Anna Pegler-Gordon, Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island (University of North Carolina) HONORABLE MENTION — Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Empire′s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper (Duke) Media, Performance, and Visual Studies OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Việt Lê, Return Engagements: Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in Sai Gon and Phnom Penh (Duke) HONORABLE MENTION — Hentyle Yapp, Minor China: Methods, Materialism, and the Aesthetic (Duke) Literary Studies OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Erin Suzuki, Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Temple) HONORABLE MENTION — David Roh, Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions (Stanford) Social Sciences OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Nadia Kim, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA (Stanford) HONORABLE MENTION — Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam (Duke) Book Award Winners – 2022 (Denver, CO) Humanities & Cultural Studies: Literary Studies Christine Hong for A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific Honorable Mention: Long Le-Khac for Giving Form to an Asian & Latinx America Humanities & Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary/Media Studies Sean Metzger for The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization Honorable Mention: Bakirathi Mani for Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America Social Sciences No winner awarded The Social Science Book Award subcommittee are in unanimous agreement that the three books submitted for consideration of the 2020 social science book award did not deeply engage both the Asian American (or AAPI) Studies and the social science studies germane to the research question(s) at hand. This is an exceptionally low number of submitted books for this award relative to previous years. Therefore, the Association for Asian American Studies regretfully will not be able to award a 2020 book prize in the category of social science books. We are committed to continuing our recognition of Asian American Studies scholarship in the social sciences and hope that we have a robust competition next year. History Uzma Quraishi for Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War Honorable Mentions: Jana K. Lipman for In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates; Greg Robinson for The Unsung Great: Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans Creative Writing: Prose J. Koh for The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir Honorable Mention: Lysley Tenorio for The Son of Good Fortune Creative Writing: Poetry Marianne Chan for All Heathens Past Winners – 2021 (Virtual Conference) Humanities & Cultural Studies: Literary Studies Quynh Nhu Le for Unsettled Solidarities: Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas Humanities & Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary/Media Studies Kandice Chuh for The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man” Honorable Mention: David L. Eng and Shinhee Han for Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans Social Sciences Jian Neo Chen for Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement Honorable Mentions: Keith L. Camacho for Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam; Victoria Reyes for Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines History Monica Kim for The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History Honorable Mention: Maile Arvin for Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania Creative Writing: Prose Xuan Juliana Wang for Home Remedies: Stories Honorable Mention: Ricco Villanueva Siasoco for The Foley Artist: Stories Creative Writing: Poetry Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley for Colonize Me Honorable Mentions: Jenifer Sang Eun Park for Autobiography of Horse; Jan-Henry Gray for Documents Past Winners – 2020 (Washington, DC – CANCELED) Humanities & Cultural Studies: Literary Studies Stephen Hong Sohn for Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction Humanities & Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary/Media Studies Elizabeth W. Son for Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress Honorable Mention: Stephanie Nohelani Teves for Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance Social Sciences Jan M. Padios for A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines Honorable Mention: Valerie Francisco-Menchavez for The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age History Renisa Mawani for Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire Honorable Mention: Simeon Man for Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific Creative Writing: Prose Kawika Guillermo for Stamped: an anti-travel novel Creative Writing: Poetry Jennifer Kwon Dobbs for Interrogation Room Honorable Mention: Faisal Mohyuddin for The Displaced Children of Displaced Children Past Winners – 2019 (Madison, WI) Humanities & Cultural Studies: Literary Studies Crystal Parikh for Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color Humanities & Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary/Media Studies Nancy Yunhwa Rao for Chinatown Opera Theater in North America Honorable Mention: ShiPu Wang for The Other American Moderns: Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa Social Sciences Eric J. Pido for Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity Honorable Mention: Lalaie Ameeriar for Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora History Julian Lim for Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Creative Writing: Prose Karen Tei Yamashita for Letters to Memory Creative Writing: Poetry Margaret Rhee for Love, Robot Past Winners – 2018 (San Francisco, CA) Humanities & Cultural Studies: Literary Studies Lisa Yoneyama for Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes Humanities & Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary/Media Studies Carlis Roberts for Resounding Afro Asia: Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration Social Sciences Laura Madokoro for Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants and the Cold War History Naomi Paik for Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II Creative Writing: Prose Shawna Yang Ryan for Green Island Creative Writing: Poetry Solomaz Sharif for Look Past Winners – 2017 (Portland, OR) Humanities & Cultural Studies: Literary Studies Keith Feldman for A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America Humanities & Cultural Studies: Multidisciplinary Approaches Grace Kyungwon Hong for Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference Social Sciences Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou for The Asian American Achievement Paradox History Madeline Y. Hsu for The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority Creative Writing: Prose Viet Nguyen for The Sympathizer: A Novel Creative Writing: Poetry Amanda Ngoho Reavey for Marilyn Past Winners – 2016 (Miami, FL) Cultural Studies Rachel Lee for The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies Creative Writing: Poetry Cathy Linh Che for Split Creative Writing: Prose Gene Oishi for Fox Drum Bebop Social Science Hung Cam Thai for Insufficient Funds: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families Honorable Mention: Zareena Grewal for Islam is a Foreign Country: Amerian Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority History Ellen Wu for The Color of Success Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority Literary Criticism Dorothy Wang for Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry Past Winners – 2015 (Evanston/Chicago, IL) Cultural Studies Vernadette Gonzalez for Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai’i and the Philippines Creative Writing: Poetry Wing Tek Lum for The Nanjing Massacre: Poems Creative Writing: Prose Ruth Ozeki for A Tale for the Time Being Social Science Gilda Ochoa for Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap History Vivek Bald for Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America Literary Criticism Min Hyoung Song for The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American Past Winners – 2014 (San Francisco, CA) Cultural Studies Lucy San Pablo Burns for Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire Mimi Nguyen for The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt and Other Refugee Passages Poetry/Prose Nagahara Shoson and Andrew Leong for Lament in the Night Social Sciences Bindi V. Shah for Laotian Daughters: Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice Pawan Dhingra for Life Beyond the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream History Kornel Chang for Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands Literary Studies Christopher Lee for The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature Honorable Mention: Denise Cruz for Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina Past Winners – 2013 (Seattle, WA) Cultural Studies Chandan Reddy for The Violence of Freedom: Race, Sexuality and the State Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu for Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion Poetry/Prose Lee A. Tonouchi for Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son: One Hawai’i Okinawan Journal Social Sciences Junaid Rana for Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora Honorable Mention: Nazli Kibria for Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora History Andrea Geiger for Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928 Honorable Mention: Richard S. Kim for The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty Literary Studies erin Khue Ninh for Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature Honorable Mentions: Rocio G. Davis for Relative Histories: Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs Julia Lee for Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896- 1937 Past Winners – 2012 (Washington, DC Cultural Studies J.B. Capino for Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema Honorable Mention: Leslie Bow for Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South Poetry/Prose Tan Lin for Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking: [AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL POEM PAINTING FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE] Karen Tei Yamashita for I-Hotel Honorable Mention: Neela Vaswani for You Have Given Me a Country Social Sciences Eleana Kim for Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Honorable Mention: Robyn M. Rodriguez for Migrants for Export: How the Philippine Brokers Labor to the World History Lisa Rose Mar for Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945 Honorable Mentions: Him Mark Lai for Chinese American Transnational Politics; Erika Lee and Judy Yung for Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America Literary Studies Steven Yao for Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity Past Winners – 2011 (New Orleans, LA) Cultural Studies Margo Machida for Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary Honorable Mention: Sunaina Maira for Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 Poetry/Prose Rakesh Satyal for Blue Boy Social Sciences Wei Li for Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America History Greg Robinson for A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America Literary Studies Timothy Yu for Race and the Avant Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Past Winners – 2010 (Austin, TX) Cultural Studies Lisa Nakamura for Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet Poetry/Prose Preeta Samarasan for Evening is the Whole Day Honorable Mentions: Wendy Lee for Happy Family and Julie Shikeguni for Unending Nora Social Sciences Lynn Fujiwara for Mothers Without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and Welfare Reform Jamillah Karim for American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender Within the Ummah History Scott Kurashige for The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles Honorable Mention: Gordon H. Chang, with Mark Dean Johnson, and Paul J. Karlstrom (eds.) for Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 Literary Studies Josephine Nock-Hee Park for Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics Honorable Mention: Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn for Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography Past Winners – 2009 (Hawai’i, HI) Awards given for books published in 2007 Cultural Studies Celine Parrenas Shimizu for The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene Jasbir Puar for Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Poetry/Prose Lisa Chen for Mouth Wang Ping for The Last Communist Virgin Social Sciences Rhacel Parrenas and Lok Siu, (eds.) for Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions Honorable Mentions: Pawan Dhingra for Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities; Angie Y. Chung for Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics History Daisuke Miyao for Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Literary Studies Amie Elizabeth Parry for Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen Honorable Mention: Rocio Davis for Begin Here: Reading Asian North American Autobiographies of Childhood Past Winners – 2005 (Los Angeles, CA) Awards given for books published in 2003 Social Sciences Yen Le Espiritu for Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries Poetry/Prose Linh Dinh for All Around What Empties Out Monique Truong for The Book of Salt History Catherine Ceniza Choy for Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History Erika Lee for At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 Cultural Studies Elaine Kim, Margo Machida, Sharon Mizota, (eds.) for Fresh Talk, Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art Honorable Mention: Martin Manalansan for Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora Past Winners – 2004 (Boston, MA) Awards given for books published in 2002 History Lon Kurashige for Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990 Xiaojian Zhao for Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965 Cultural Studies Laura Hyun Yi Kang for Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women Social Sciences Joshua H. Roth for Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan Past Winners – 2003 (San Francisco, CA) Awards given for books published in 2001 Social Sciences Viranjini P. Munasinghe for Callaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad Cultural Studies Anthony Lee for Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco History Nayan Shah for Contagious Divide: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown Prose/Prose Brian Ascalon Roley for American Son Special Award for Most Outstanding Reference Tool on Asian American History Gary Y. Okihiro for The Columbia Guide to Asian American History Past Winners – 2002 (Salt Lake City, UT) Awards given for books published in 2000 Cultural Studies Martin Manalansan for Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America History Madeline Hsu for Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 Poetry/Prose Priscilla Lee for Wishbone David Wong Louie for The Barbarians are Coming Past Winners – 2001 (Toronto, Canada) Awards given for books published in 1999 History/ Social Sciences Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan (eds.) for Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era John Kuo Wei Tchen for New York Before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 Poetry/Prose Frank Chin for Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays Cultural Studies Aihwa Ong for Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logic of Transnationality David Eng and Alice Hom (eds.) for Q & A: Queer and Asian American Past Winners – 1998 (Honolulu, HI) Awards given for books published in 1997 History/ Social Sciences Kyeyoung Park for The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City Fiction Award — Rescinded. Lois Ann Yamanaka for Blu’s Hanging Cultural Studies/ Literary Dorinne K. Kondo for About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater Poetry Roy K. Kiyooka for Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka Past Winners – 1997 (Seattle, WA) Awards given for books published in 1996 Lisa Lowe for Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics Pyong Gap Min for Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles Past Winners – 1996 (Washington, DC) Awards given for books published in 1995 History Judy Yung for Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco Special Award Mary Kimoto Tomita for Dear Miye: Letters Home From Japan, 1939 – 1946 Cultural Studies Annette White-Parks for Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography Literature Sigrid Nunez for A Feather on the Breath of God Past Winners – 1995 (Oakland, CA) Awards given for books published in 1994 Gina Marchetti for Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction Cris Friday for Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870 – 1942 Wakako Yamauchi for Songs My Mother Taught Me Timothy Fong for The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California Past Winners – 1994 (Ann Arbor, MI) Awards given for books published in 1993 Lois-Ann Yamanaka for Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre Barbara Kawakami for Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii 1885-1941 Faye Myenne Ng for Bone Yen Le Espiritu for Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities Past Winners – 1993 (Ithaca, NY) Awards given for books published in 1992 Kimiko Hahn for Earshot Dana Takagi for Retreat From Race: Asian Admissions and Racial Politics Renqiu Yu for To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York Epifanio San Juan Jr. for Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States Gary Pak for The Watcher of Waipuna and Other Stories Past Winners – 1992 (San Jose, CA) Awards given for books published in 1991 Gary Y. Okihiro for Cane Fires, The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 Darrell H. Lum for Pass On, No Pass Back! Stephen S. Fugita and David J. O’Brien for Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community Stephen H. Sumida for And the View From the Shore: Literary Traditions of Hawai’i Past Winners – 1991 (Honolulu, HI) Awards given for books published in 1990 Jessica Hagedorn for Dogeaters Mary Paik Lee for Quiet Odyssey, A Pioneer Korean Woman in America Past Winners – 1990 (Santa Barbara, California) Awards given for books published in 1989 Asian Women United of California (eds.) for Making Waves: Writing By and About Asian American Women Ronald Takaki for Strangers From a Different Shore, A History of Asian Americans James M. Freeman for Hearts of Sorrow, Vietnamese- American Lives Past Winners – 1989 (New York, NY) Awards given for books published in 1988 Yuji Ichioka for The Issei, The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 Hisaye Yamamoto for Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories Past Winners – 1988 (Pullman, WA) Awards given for books published in 1987 Sucheng Chan for This Bitter Sweet Soil, The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910 Past Winners – 1987 (San Francisco, CA) Awards given for books published in 1986 Wing Tek Lum for Expounding the Doubtful Points Edward D. Beechert for Working in Hawaii, A Labor History Timothy J. Lukes and Gary Y. Okihiro for Japanese Legacy, Farming and Community Life in California’s Santa Clara Valley Sandy Lydon for Chinese Gold, The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region