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English
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Asian Americans in Utah : A Living History
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Asian American Advisory Council
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264
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Immigration continues as an important theme both in Utah's past and present and the ongoing peopling of Utah harbors accounts of optimism, triumphs, tragedies, joys, fears, and new opportunities. As part of this peopling, immigrants from different Asian countries have arrived to assume a place among Utah's ethnic and cultural diversity. The Chinese and Japanese who contributed to the state's early industrial and agricultural development were among the first, and these groups remain the most studied. But the stories of other Asian groups hover in relative obscurity. These people arrived when world economic, political, social and technological forces again pushed people in motion. The Asian Indians, Cambodians, Chinese, Filipinos, Hmong Japanese, Koreans, Laotians, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese have ventured into Utah for many of the same reasons as earlier arrivals. Their accounts render a more complete view of Utah history. [From the Introduction]