Madeline Y Hsu Editor & Author

Known as "the dean of Chinese American studies," Him Mark Lai (1925–2009) was an independent historian and an adjunct professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. His influential works included Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions.

Madeline Y. Hsu is an associate professor of history and the director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.