She is the author of numerous articles on Chinese Americans and has published four books on the subject: The Chinese in the Woods: Logging and Lumbering in the American West. Sue Fawn Chung, Professor Emerita, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, received her master’s from Harvard and her doctorate from UC Berkeley. They live in Los Angeles with a small dog and a cargo van. They tell stories about nostalgic Americana, immigration, and new rituals. Shing Yin Khor is the author-illustrator of The Legend of Auntie Po, the Eisner-winning and National Book Award finalist graphic novel about a young Chinese logging camp cook in the Sierra Nevada telling Paul Bunyan tales, and of The American Dream?, a graphic novel memoir about driving Route 66. Set in an 1880s logging camp in the Sierras, Khor’s graphic novel weaves together stories of thirteen-year old Mei and her friends and family – including the mythical Auntie Po, camp life, and Chinese American community-building during the Chinese Exclusion Era. Camp join in discussion with author Shing Yin Khor. Historians Sue Fawn Chung, Will Gow, and Archaeologist Stacey L.
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