Reviewed by Gordon H. Chang | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.2

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Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919–1933. By Josephine Fowler. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xiv + 272 pp. Maps, photos, illustrations, notes, and index. $27.95 (paper).

When Josie Fowler visited me fifteen years ago to seek help for her dissertation about early Communist activities among Chinese and Japanese in America, I could offer very little advice but much consolation for what seemed a virtually impossible task. She had an abundance of energy, great intentions, and no Chinese or Japanese language ability. The activists and period she wished to study, from the rise of Communism in Asia to the early Depression years, were little understood, and, as far as I knew, there were no substantial archives in the United States to research. It was not possible to imagine that years later, Fowler would produce an impressive book based on imaginative research and original thinking.

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