Immigration has transformed Chinese America. Tracing the development from Chinatown to Chinese ethnoburb in metropolitan Los Angeles, Dr. Min Zhou examines how diasporic formation and transformation are shaped; how ethnic communities can be platforms that both provide alternative paths to social mobility and also reproduce social inequality; and how long-standing racial stereotyping, including the seemingly positive “model minority” stereotype, hampers Chinese American life.

Dr. Min Zhou is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications, and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely in the areas of migration & development, race and ethnicity, Chinese diaspora, and the sociology of Asia and Asian America, including the award-winning book The Asian American Achievement Paradox.