John Jung
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Born in Macon, Georgia, where
his family, the only Chinese in the city, lived above their laundry. After moving to California, he majored in psychology at U. C. Berkeley and went on to earn a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Author of several academic textbooks, including Psychology of Alcohol and Other Drugs,which will be out in a Second Edition with Sage Publications in 2009. He is Professor of Psychology Emeritus at California State University, Long Beach.
After retiring, in 2005 he published a memoir about his family's life in Georgia, Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South. A second book, Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain, published in 2007,examines the significant role that their laundries had on the economic survival of Chinese immigrants throughout North America during much of the century from about the 1870s to 1970s.
A new book, "Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton," to be published in Nov. 2008 is a social history of the Chinese of the Mississippi River Delta who ran small grocery stores for over a century from the late 1800s to the present.
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