John Jung

A retired university professor of psychology, I am researching, writing, and speaking about aspects of Chinese American history related to the family-run businesses such as laundries, restaurants, and grocery stores that so many early immigrants operated to survive because racial discrimination excluded them from most other occupations. My interest originally stemmed from growing up and helping with work in my parents' Sam Lee Laundry in Macon, Georgia, where we were the only Chinese in the whole city from the late 1920s to the 1950s.