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Jung (John) collection on Indochinese refugee resettlement
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MS.SEA.039
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: John Jung collection on Indochinese refugee resettlement program
Creator:
Jung, John
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.039
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1974-1979
Abstract: This collection comprises materials
collected by California State University, Long Beach Psychology Professor Emeritus John Jung
that document Southeast Asian refugee resettlement efforts during the mid to late 1970s in
California and includes minutes, agendas, handbooks, fact sheets, correspondence,
newsletters, directories, reports, and anthropological survey materials from the US
government and other organizations that were supporting refugee settlement in Southern
California.
Language of Material:
English .
The collection has not been processed but is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are retained by the
creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please
contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
John Jung collection on Indochinese refugee resettlement program. MS-SEA039. Special
Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
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descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Gift of John Jung, 2009.
John Jung was born to the only Chinese immigrant family in Macon, Georgia in 1937. He moved
with his family to the San Francisco when he was fifteen and remained in the Bay Area while
he completed his BA at the University of California, Berkeley. After earning his PhD at
Northwestern University in Illinois, Jung returned to California as a Professor of
Psychology at California State University, Long Beach where he served as department chair
for several years in the 1970s and published numerous papers, reports, and textbooks on
memory, motivation, research ethics, research methodology and the psychology of alcohol and
other drugs. Additionally, Jung served as Director of Career Opportunities in Research
(COR), a mentoring program for minority students funded by the National Institute of Mental
Health from 1981-2006; Director of, Career Opportunities in Research and Education (CORET)
funded by the National Institute of Mental Health from 1997-2006; and the Faculty Research
Coordinator (1996-2002) for the McNair Scholars Program, funded by the U.S. Department of
Education to mentor low-income students who are first in their families to attend college or
come from underrepresented groups so they may pursue Ph.D. studies. He also became a Western
Psychological Association Fellow in 1995.
In 2002, Jung reduced his course load to half time as he prepared for retirement. During
this time he began to reflect on many issues, including his ethnic identity as a Chinese
American. In an attempt to understand how his ethnic identity was formed, Jung wrote the
memoir
Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep
South
, which he self-published in 2005. The memoir was well-received and Jung has
since published two more books documenting the Chinese experience in America,
Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain and
Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese
Grocers
. As of 2012, Jung is Professor of Psychology Emeritus and completed his
fourth book on the Chinese American experience,
Sweet and Sour: Life
in Chinese Family Restaurants
which was published in 2010.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises materials collected by California State University, Long Beach
Psychology Professor Emeritus John Jung that document Southeast Asian refugee resettlement
efforts during the mid to late 1970s in California and includes minutes, agendas, handbooks,
fact sheets, correspondence, newsletters, directories, reports, and anthropological survey
materials from the US government and other organizations that were supporting refugee
settlement in Southern California.