{"pk":50545,"title":"“Narrative Cold War: Public Identities in the Confession Era,” Excerpt from Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative  (Temple University Press, 2021)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>In this excerpt from Heidi Kim's book <em>llegal Immigrants: Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative</em>, Kim presents new research on the life and family history of Chinese American novelist Jade Snow Wong, often regarded as a paradigm of immigrant upward mobility and whose memoirs written years apart suggest contradictory narratives of the family's immigration to the United States. Kim's deeper purpose in examining Wong's family history is to provide context for the collective history of Chinatowns and the Chinese American communities who were targeted as presumed fraudulent immigrants during a period of intensive anticommunist sentiment.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Jade Snow Wong"},{"word":"Chinese Confession Program"},{"word":"illegal immigration"},{"word":"paper son"},{"word":"Fifth Chinese Daughter"},{"word":"Chinese America: Burden and Prize"},{"word":"model minority"},{"word":"autobiography studies"},{"word":"Chinese American public identity"},{"word":"Transnational American Studies"},{"word":"Chinese American History"}],"section":"Forward","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fs500cz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Heidi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kim","name_suffix":"","institution":"Unviersity of North Carolina","department":"English and Comparative Literature","country":"United States"}],"date_submitted":"2025-08-03T05:09:49.207000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-08-03T05:23:18.929000+02:00","date_published":"2025-08-03T20:27:00+02:00","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/50545/galley/38547/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/50545/galley/38547/download/"}]}