John Jung's Books
Feb.01.2010
Sweet and Sour examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business around the end of the 19th century? What conditions made it possible for Chinese to open and succeed in operating restaurants after they emigrated to North America? How did Chinese restaurants manage to attract non-Chinese customers, given...
Jun.01.2009
Providing a psychological perspective on the use and abuse of alcohol and other psychoactive drugs, the Second Edition will include more coverage on the theories of why alcohol and other drugs are used, as well as broad conceptual issues related to the nature of addiction. Research on smoking, caffeine, and simultaneous multiple drug use, including combinations with antidepressant...
Jun.15.2008
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned...
Jun.15.2008
Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South is my memoir about my immigrant parents and their children and their social and cultural isolation running a laundry in the Deep South from just before the Great Depression until the early 1950s where they were the only Chinese in town. Although it is the story of only one family, Southern Fried Rice has appealed to...
Jun.15.2008
Psychology of Alcohol and Other Drugs explores the physical effects of alcohol use, individual use origins, personality, age, race/ethnic, and gender differences in alcohol use, and methods for recovery from dependency. The book places emphasis on scientific research studies that evaluate major issues.
Feb.01.2008
The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and...
… a significant contribution to the history of Chinese laundries…best told by someone like Jung who experienced a ‘laundry life,’ and understands its psychological impact on the Chinese laundrymen and their families...
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—Murray K. Lee, Curator, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
About John
Born in Macon, Georgia, where his immigrant parents from China, the only Chinese in the city, owned a 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...
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