...Robert Gottlieb The relationship between China and Los Angeles has been transformed over the past thirty years through the enormous expansion of global trade and imported products made in China. Products arrive in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and are then transported by truck and rail...

... Chinese Americans China San Francisco Clement Street Chinatown Gentrification Asian Americans david lee Clement Street A transect of change Chinese are leaving the Chinese city of San Francisco at the very moment thatSan Francisco has become, spectacularly, America s most important Chinesecity...

...Bill Lascher Often lost in recollections of World War II is the eight-year conflict fought between Japan and China. The war claimed 14 million Chinese lives and, for a time, China was nearly cut off from contact with the outside world. But Charles E. Stuart, a dentist in the sleepy California beach...

...Jeffrey Wasserstrom This essay examines the song “Hotel California” by The Eagles, which has garnered legions of fans (and detractors) and taken on a variety of meanings as it has made its way around the globe. Well known in China and India, among other places, it even made a cameo appearance...