Sucheng Chan

Sucheng Chan (simplified Chinese: 陈素真; traditional Chinese: 陳素真; pinyin: Chén Sùzhēn; born 1941) is a Chinese-American author, historian, scholar, and professor. She was the first to chair a Department of Asian American Studies at a major U.S. research university and she was the first Asian American woman in the University of California system to hold the title of provost.

Chan was born in Shanghai, China in 1941. Her family moved to Hong Kong in 1949, to Malaysia in 1950, and to the US in 1957.^[1] She received a bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College (Economics, 1963), a master's degree at the University of Hawaii (Asian Studies, 1965), and a Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley (Political Science, 1973).^[2] She married Mark Juergensmeyer, a fellow graduate student at UC Berkeley. Now retired from the University of California, Santa Barbara because of the effects of post-polio syndrome, she donated much of her personal library and papers to the Immigration History Center University of Minnesota. She was a Guggenheim Fellowship laureate in 1988.^[3]

Selected works

• 1986, “This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910″
• 1989, “Social and Gender Boundaries in the United States”
• 1990, “Income and Status Differences Between White and Minority Americans: A Persistent Inequality”
• 1991, “Asian Americans: An Interpretive History”
• 1991, “Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943″
• 1993, “Peoples of Color in the American West”
• 1994, “Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America”
• 1996, “Major Problems in California History”
• 1998, "Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era"
• 2003, “Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States”
• 2003, “Remapping Asian American History”
• 2004, “Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States”
• 2005, “Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources. and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era"
• 2005, “In Defense of Asian American Studies: The Politics of Teaching and Program Building”
• 2006, “The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings”
• 2008, “Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture”

Awards

• 1978, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California at Berkeley
• 1984, Best article award, Pacific Historical Review
• 1986, Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award in Agricultural History
• 1987, Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical Association
• 1988, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies
• 1990, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies
• 1992, Award for contributions to California History, California Historical Society
• 1992, Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Civil Rights
• 1994, Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award, University of California at Santa Barbara
• 1997, Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies
• 1998, Asian American Faculty and Staff Association’s Distinguished Lecturer Award, University of California at Santa Barbara
• 1998, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California at Santa Barbara
• 2001, History and Social Science Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies
• 2005, Outstanding Acaemic Title Award, Choice Magazine
• 2006, History Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies

See also

• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1988

References

1. Zhao & Park 2013, p. 45.
2. "Chinese American Heroine: Sucheng Chan". Asian Week. 5 June 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
3. "Sucheng Chan". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

Bibliography

• Zhao, Xiaojian; Park, Edward J. W. (26 November 2013). Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-240-1.