As an American Born Chinese (ABC), my research and writing on Chinese American history deals with the perspective and materials written in English mostly by other ABCs.
Sometimes, I wonder what Chinese in China, especially those who do not read or speak English know, or have interest, about Chinese American history. I do not have the means or Chinese language competence to present my own books to this large potential audience and I wonder how much material about Chinese American history written in Chinese is available to people in China.
Recently I discovered the diligent efforts of Dai Wei, a Chinese from China living in New York, who has done some truly valuable in-depth research about aspects of Chinese American history, especially in the American South during the 19th century. He has a blog on a website in China
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/ that that is primarily about medical and physical science topics but includes Dai Wei's blog on the history of Chinese in the U.S.
If you go to this link:
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/u/usbbi
it will open in Chinese but within seconds, the page will be translated into English.
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Another
link takes you to the information about the earliest Chinese in the Deep South, for example.
Dai Wei's blog provides access to information written in Chinese for people who are not proficient in English. Admittedly, there are some "translation errors" such as referring to Oakland, California, as Auckland, but they are few and usually minor.
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Below are several examples of the posts on the blog.
Early Georgia
Arkansas
Mississippi Delta Chinese
Pennsylvania Chinese
