History as Present: Book Launch for Gordon H. Chang

Stanford Professor Gordon H. Chang is speaking on Dec. 14 at the Silicon Valley Asian Art Center in San Jose. The event is open to the public and is a book launch event for his new publication, War, Race, and Culture: Journeys in Transpacific and Asian American Histories, which spotlights 15 essays he published during his career.

With a personal reflection on his life as an Asian American activist and scholar, this book covers a range of experiences and social issues ranging from racial attitudes of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower; the history of Chinese Exclusion; the relationship of Chinese Americans and China; and Chinese American art history. Dr. Chang will share his life story and how it intersects with the development of the writing of Asian American history.