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Yong Chen
Yong Chen received his Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. He is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, where he also served as the University's Associate Dean of Graduate Studies from fall 1999 through summer 2004. He is author of Chinese San Francisco 1850–1943: A Transpacific Community (Stanford, 2000) and a main contributor to Civil Rights in America: A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites for the National Park Service, a study authorized and funded by the U.S. Congress. His current research on the intersection of contemporary Sino-American economic and cultural interactions and especially on American ethnic food in American society has received much attention and recognition across the nation.