In this book, eleven historians and anthropologists combine to give the broadest and most nuanced coverage to date of Chinese American death rituals. Recommended.

Choice Reviews

This volume contains a number of invaluable reports of archaeological findings on Chinese death-ritual practices in America in the 19th and 20th centuries. It looks at the migration history of the overseas Chinese from a special angle, and sheds new light on our understanding of the living culture-through studying the dead-of the early Chinese sojourners in the West.

Journal Of Chinese Overseas

Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors is a valuable addition to the increasingly important subject of death ways. This highly readable work should be of tremendous interest to archeologists, ethnographers, folklorists, landscape historians, cultural geographers, and architectural historians.

Jeffrey L. Durbin, The Journal Of Heritage Stewardship

A brand-new look at [Chinese American] history. At times it sneaks up on the reader and positively enthralls.

The Asian Reporter