Migration studies, Asian American history, Chinese overseas, U.S. immigration
Co-editor with Marcelo Borges, Donna Gabaccia, “Cambridge History of Global Migrations,” Vol. II. Under preparation.
"Teach Immigration History" co-sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, UT Austin, and EdSitement [immigrationhistory.org]
Co-edited with Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia. A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965. University of Illinois Press, 2019.
Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, December 2016.
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became a Model Minority. Princeton University Press, 2015. Received 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize; 2015 Theodore J. Saloutos Book Award; 2014-2015 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Adult Non-Fiction Honor Book 2015 Chinese American Librarians Association Award for non-fiction; 2017 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award
Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford University Press, 2000. Received 2002 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award