With overview essays and more than 400 A-Z entries, this exhaustive encyclopedia documents the history of Asians in America from earliest contact to the present day.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Asian American Experience
• A
• Act to Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts (1943)
• Adoption of Asian Children
• Affirmative Action
• Agbayani Village
• Akaka, Daniel (1924–)
• Alien Land Law Movement
• Amerasians and Multiracial Asian Americans
• Angel Island Immigration Station
• Anglo-Indians
• Anti-Asian Violence
• Anti-Cambodian Incidents
• Anti-Chinese Riots
• Anti-Filipino Movement
• Anti-Japanese Movement
• Antimiscegenation Laws
• Arai, Clarence Takeya (1901–1964)
• Aruego, Jose (1932–)
• Asian American Dance Theatre
• Asian American Journalists Association
• Asian American Movement
• Asian American Studies
• AsianWeek
• Asiatic Exclusion League
• Assimilation and Acculturation
• Association for Asian American Studies
• Association for Asian Studies
• Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists
• Association of Indians in America
• Association of Korean Political Studies
• B
• “Bachelor Society”
• Bangladeshi Americans: History and Culture
• Bemis, Polly (1853–1933)
• Bilingual Education
• “Boat People”
• Bose, Sudhindra (1883–1946)
• Bowl of Rice Movement
• Buddhist Churches of America
• Bui, Tony (1973–)
• Bulosan, Carlos (1913–1956)
• Bunker, Chang and Eng (1811–1874)
• Burlingame Treaty (1868)
• Burmese Americans: History and Culture
• C
• Cable Act (1922)
• Cambodian American Business and Entrepreneurship
• Cambodian American Education
• Cambodian American Literature
• Cambodian American Music and Dance
• Cambodian American Political and Social Empowerment
• Cambodian American Religion
• Cambodian American Women
• Cambodian Americans: History and Culture
• Cambodians, U.S. Deportation of
• Cameron House
• Center for Asian American Media
• Center for Philippine Studies
• Chamorros
• Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910–1995)
• Chang, Sarah (1980–)
• Chennault, Anna C. (Chen Xiangmei) (1925–)
• Chiang Kai-shek, Madame (Soong Mei-ling) (1897–2003)
• Chin (Vincent) Incident
• China Books and Periodicals Incorporated
• China Lobby
• China War Relief Association
• Chinatown in Suburban America
• Chinatown (New York City)
• Chinatown on the Western Frontier
• Chinatown (San Francisco)
• Chinatowns
• Chinese American Acculturation
• Chinese American Banks
• Chinese American Business and Entrepreneurship
• Chinese American Citizens Alliance
• Chinese American Community Politics
• Chinese American Demographics
• Chinese American Education
• Chinese American Family Associations
• Chinese American Family Life
• Chinese American Festivals
• Chinese American Grocery Stores and Supermarkets
• Chinese American Interracial Dating and Marriage
• Chinese American Labor and Employment
• Chinese American Literature
• Chinese American Media and Visual Arts
• Chinese American Political and Social Empowerment
• Chinese American Press
• Chinese American Religion
• Chinese American Restaurants and Cuisine
• Chinese American Settlement Patterns
• Chinese American Students
• Chinese American Women
• Chinese Americans and the Railroad
• Chinese Americans: History and Culture
• Chinese Americans in Film
• Chinese Americans in Garment Factories
• Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
• Chinese Contract Labor
• Chinese Diaspora
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• Chinese Hospital, San Francisco
• Chinese Language Schools
• Chinese Laundries
• Chinese Martial Arts (Kung Fu)
• Chinese Nightclubs
• Chinese School (San Francisco)
• Cho, Margaret (1968–)
• Chu, Steven (1948–)
• Civil Liberties Act (1988)
• Collins, Wayne M. (1918–1974)
• Comedy and Humor
• Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
• Commodore Stockton School
• Compadrinazgo
• Confession Program
• Coordination Council for North American Affairs
• Coram Nobis Cases (1943, 1944)
• Cordova, Fred (1931–)
• Crib Papers
• D
• Daoist Temples in California
• Day of Remembrance
• Demonstration Project for Asian Americans
• Displaced Persons Act (1948)
• E
• Eu, March Fong (1922–)
• Ex parte Endo (1944)
• Exchange Visitor Program
• Executive Order 9066 (1942)
• F
• Filipina American Women
• Filipinas Magazine
• Filipino American Acculturation
• Filipino American Associations
• Filipino American Business and Entrepreneurship
• Filipino American Demographics
• Filipino American Education
• Filipino American Family Life
• Filipino Americans Interracial Dating and Marriage
• Filipino American Labor and Employment
• Filipino American Literature
• Filipino American Media and Visual Arts
• Filipino American National Historical Society
• Filipino American Political and Social Empowerment
• Filipino American Religion
• Filipino American Restaurants and Cuisine
• Filipino Americans and Agricultural Unions
• Filipino Americans and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union
• Filipino Americans: History and Culture
• Filipino Federation of America
• Filipino Federation of Labor
• Filipino Higher Wage Movement
• Filipino Immigration
• Filipino Infantry Regiments
• Filipino Naturalization Act (1946)
• Filipino/a Nurses
• Filipinos in the U.S. Navy
• Film and Filmmakers
• First Indo-American Bank
• Flying Tigers
• 442nd Regimental Combat Team
• Furuya, Masajiro (1862–1938)
• G
• Gay and Lesbian Issues
• Gentlemen's Agreement (1907–1908)
• Ghadar Movement
• Gold Rush and Mining
• H
• Hagedorn, Jessica (1949–)
• Hapa
• Hawaii Seven
• Hawaiians
• Hayakawa, S.I. (1906–1992)
• Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee
• Heco, Joseph (1837–1897)
• Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)
• Historiography and Historians
• Hmong American Community Organizations
• Hmong American Political and Social Empowerment
• Hmong American Religion
• Hmong American Women
• Ho, David (1952–)
• Hood River Incident
• Hsi Lai Temple
• Hwang, David Henry (1957–)
• I
• Ichihashi, Yamato (1878–1963)
• Ichioka, Yuji (1936–2002)
• Iglesia ni Cristo
• Immigration Act of 1924
• Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
• Immigration, Illegal
• Indian American Acculturation
• Indian American Business and Entrepreneurship
• Indian American Demographics
• Indian American Education
• Indian American Family Life
• Indian American Homosexuality
• Indian American Immigration
• Indian American Labor and Employment
• Indian American Literature
• Indian American Media and Visual Arts
• Indian American Political and Social Empowerment
• Indian American Press
• Indian American Religion
• Indian American Restaurants and Cuisine
• Indian American Women
• Indian Americans: History and Culture
• Indian Americans in Health and Medicine
• Indian Americans in the Hotel and Motel Business
• Indian Newsstands
• Indonesian Americans: History and Culture
• Inouye, Daniel K. (1924–)
• Interracial Marriage
• Inu (Informants)
• Irwin, Robert Walker (1844–1925)
• Issei
• Itliong, Larry (1913–1977)
• J
• Japan Bashing
• Japanese American Acculturation
• Japanese American Business and Entrepreneurship
• Japanese American Citizens League
• Japanese American Draft Resistance, World War II
• Japanese American Education
• Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act (1948)
• Japanese American Family Life
• Japanese American Interracial Dating and Marriage
• Japanese American Labor and Employment
• Japanese American Literature
• Japanese American National Museum
• Japanese American Press
• Japanese American Religion
• Japanese American Resettlement, Post–World War II
• Japanese American Restaurants and Cuisine
• Japanese American Settlements
• Japanese Americans: History and Culture
• Japanese Americans in Agriculture
• Japanese Americans in World War II: Incarceration and Exile
• Japanese Associations
• Japanese Diaspora
• Japanese Emigration Companies
• Japanese Language Schools
• Japanese Martial Arts
• Japanese-Mexican Labor Association
• Japanese Peruvians
• K
• Khalsa Diwan Society
• Kibei
• Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940–)
• Kitano, Harry H.L. (1926–2002)
• Koda, Keisaburo (1882–1964)
• Koreagate
• Korean American Business and Entrepreneurship
• Korean American Coalition
• Korean American Community Organizations
• Korean American Literature
• Korean American Religion
• Korean American Students
• Korean American Women
• Korean Americans: History and Culture
• Korean National Association
• Korean War Brides
• Koreatown (Los Angeles)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Kuomintang (Guomindang) in Chinatowns
• Kwan, Michelle (1980–)
• L
• Labor and Employment
• Lahiri, Jhumpa (1967–)
• Lam, Tony (1937–)
• Language
• Laotian American Religion
• Laotian and Hmong Americans: History and Culture
• Little Manila
• Little Saigon (Orange County, California)
• Little Tokyo
• Lee, Ang (1954–)
• Lee, Bruce (1940–1973)
• Lee, Rose Hum (1904–1964)
• Lee, Sammy (1920–)
• Lee, Tsung-Dao (Li Zhengdao) (1926–)
• Lee (Wen Ho) Case
• Lee, Yuan-Tseh (1936–)
• Lin, Maya Ying (1959–)
• Locke, California
• Locke, Gary (1950–)
• Los Angeles Riots
• Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904)
• M
• Ma, Yo-Yo (1955–)
• Malaysian Americans: History and Culture
• Manzanar Incident
• Masaoka, Mike Masaru (1915–1991)
• Matsunaga, Spark (1916–1990)
• McCarran-Walter Act (1952)
• McClatchy, V.S. (1857–1938)
• Mehta, Zubin (1936–)
• Mexican-Indian Marriages
• Midori (1971–)
• Mineta, Norman (1931–)
• Mink, Patsy Takemoto (1927–2002)
• Miss Chinatown
• Model Minority
• Mongolian Americans: History and Culture
• Moon, Sun Myung (1920–)
• Mukherjee, Bharati (1940–)
• Music and Musicians
• Myer, Dillon S. (1891–1982)
• N
• National Japanese American Student Relocation Council
• Native Sons of the Golden West
• Nepalese Americans: History and Culture
• Nisei
• Noguchi, Isamu (1904–1988)
• O
• Okubo, Miné (1912–2001)
• Omura, James Matsumoto (1912–1994)
• Organization of Chinese Americans
• Ozawa, Seiji (1935–)
• P
• Pacific Islander Americans: History and Culture
• Page Act (1875)
• Paik, Nam June (1932–2006)
• Pakistan League of America
• Pakistani American Religion
• Pakistani Americans: History and Culture
• Pandit, Sakharam Ganesh (1875–1959)
• Paper Sons, Paper Daughters
• Parachute Kids
• Parenting and Child Rearing
• Pei, I.M. (1917–)
• Picture Brides
• Politics and Politicians
• Portsmouth Square, San Francisco
• Proposition 209 (1996)
• Punjabi Americans
• Q
• Queue Ordinance (1876)
• R
• Ramakrishna Mission
• Redress Movement
• Refugee Act (1980)
• Refugee Relief Act (1953)
• Religion
• Remittances
• Repatriation Act (1935)
• S
• Sam Yap and Sze Yap
• Samoan Americans
• San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
• San Francisco Radical Club
• Sargent, Frank P. (1854–1908)
• Satow, Masao (1908–1977)
• Saund, Dalip Singh (1899–1973)
• “Schoolboy”/“Schoolgirl”
• Science and Scientists
• Scott Act (1888)
• Seabrook Farms
• Seattle Exclusion League
• Self-Realization Fellowship
• Shikata Ga Nai
• Shima, George (1864–1926)
• Shridharani, Krishnalal (1911–1960)
• Singaporean Americans: History and Culture
• Singh, Jawala (1859–1938)
• Slocum, Tokutaro “Tokie” (1895–1974)
• Sri Lankan Americans: History and Culture
• Subba Row, Yellapragada (1895–1948)
• T
• Tagalog
• Taiwan Independence Movement
• Taiwanese American Business and Entrepreneurship
• Taiwanese American Demographics
• Taiwanese American Political Empowerment
• Taiwanese American Students
• Taiwanese Americans: History and Culture
• Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922)
• Tan, Amy (1952–)
• Taxi-Dance Halls
• Thai Americans: History and Culture
• Theater
• Theosophical Society
• Tibetan Americans: History and Culture
• Tien, Chang-lin (1935–2002)
• Ting, Samuel C.C. (1936–)
• Tokyo Rose (1916–2006)
• Tolan Committee
• Tongans
• Tongs
• Transnationalism
• Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1882)
• Tsui, Daniel C. (1939–)
• Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934)
• U
• Uchida, Yoshiko (1921–1992)
• United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)
• Uno, Edison Tomimaro (1929–1976)
• V
• Vietnamese American Business and Entrepreneurship
• Vietnamese American Literature
• Vietnamese American Politics and Political Empowerment
• Vietnamese American Religion
• Vietnamese American Women
• Vietnamese Americans: History and Culture
• W
• Wang, An (1920–1990)
• Wang, Charles B. (1944–)
• Wang, Vera (1949–)
• Wang, Wayne (1949–)
• War Brides and War Brides Act (1945)
• War Relocation Authority
• Watumull Foundation
• Weglyn, Michi Nishiura (1926–1999)
• Wing, Yung (1828–1912)
• Wong, Jade Snow (1922–2006)
• Woo, Shien Biau (1937–)
• Woods, Tiger (1975–)
• Wu, Chien-Shiung (1912–1997)
• Y
• Yamaguchi, Kristi (1971–)
• Yang, Chen Ning (1922–)
• Yang, Jerry (1968–)
• Yasui v. United States (1943)
• Youth Gangs
• Yuba City, California
• Chronology
• Master Bibliography