Gordon H Chang Books in Order

Gordon Chang examines American policy toward China and the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1972. Using declassified records, he explores how successive administrations recognized and exploited tensions between the communist powers, influencing nuclear strategy and intervention in Vietnam.

This illustrated exhibition companion surveys art made by people of Asian descent in America from 1900 to 1970. Essays and examples across several media examine artists including Ruth Asawa, Isamu Noguchi and Yun Gee, emphasizing varied influences and approaches.

Gordon Chang traces the longstanding American conviction that China matters to the nation's destiny. Drawing on politics, biography, literature, art and popular culture, he examines centuries of fascination, fear and expectations surrounding the relationship.

Gordon Chang reconstructs the experiences of Chinese workers who built the Central Pacific Railroad. Following their journeys from southern China across the American West, he examines dangerous labor, resistance, discrimination and the lives obscured by sparse surviving personal records.