PERILOUS PASSAGE: RECENT LEGAL AND ILLEGAL CHINESE AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS

The Chinese Americans. By Benson Tong. The New American Series, Series Editor, Ronald H. Bayor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. xiv + 264 pp. Illustrations, noted Chinese Americans, notes, selected bibliography. $39.95.

Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States. By Ko-lin Chin. Foreward by Douglas S. Massey. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 2000. xx + 221 pp. Tables, glossary, methodology, notes, bibliography. $64.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

S. F. Chung
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Benson Tong and Ko-lin Chin have written a detailed picture of the contemporary Chinese American immigrant situation. While Tong covers the historical experience, with an emphasis on the post-World War II situation, Chin focuses upon the illegal Chinese from Fujian province who have settled in New York in the 1990s.