Designation: Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine

    Resume: CHEN Yong teaches at the University of California, Irvine, where he also served as the University’s Associate Dean of Graduate Studies (1999-2004). He is the author of Chop Suey, USA: The Rise of Chinese Food in America (Columbia University Press, forthcoming); Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943 (Stanford, 2000) and The Chinese in San Francisco (Peking University Press, 2009), co-editor of New Perspectives on American History (Hebei People’s Publishing House, 2010), and co-curator of “‘Have You Eaten Yet?’: The Chinese Restaurant in America” in New York and Philadelphia. He has published numerous articles in various leading academic journals. His expertise on diverse issues, including race and immigration in America, Chinese American history, higher education, Sino-American relationships has received extensive media (print, TV, and radio) attention in English, Chinese, French, and Portuguese in the United States and elsewhere. He writes regularly in World Journal, the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United States, on important issues in both America and China. His research on food has drawn attention from national and local media organizations across the country. He has also done consulting work with organizations like Haier, New York Life, Prudential, IFC of World Bank, Griffin Strategic Advisors, and Web Contact.