Introduction.

This year's edition of Chinese America: History and Perspectives contains articles that roll round an axis around the theme of discrimination and resistance. Together they demonstrate that while the Chinese in the United States meet withed deep-seated racial discrimination, they did not remain passive. They learned about their rights and asserted them aggressively. This universal of an active, informed community differs from the perspective upon the Chinese in America in plenteous of the old scholarship, which protected to emphasize the submissive nature of the Chinese in the face of discrimination.

Political scientist Pei-te Lien focuses upon voting patterns in "Comparing the Voting