The autobiography of Him Mark Lai, considered the "Dean of Chinese American History." A compelling account of Him Mark Lai's life from the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s, through World War II and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, through the Ethnic Studies Movements of the 1960s, to the present. With rare archival and family photographs, charts, maps. Relevant to those scholars and students of U.S.-China relations,...