{"id":2756,"date":"2011-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/09\/13\/professor-john-jung-returns-to-the-mississippi-delta\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:47","slug":"professor-john-jung-returns-to-the-mississippi-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/09\/professor-john-jung-returns-to-the-mississippi-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor John Jung returns to the Mississippi Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"271\" align=\"left\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Dr. John Jung\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2011Releases\/John Jung.JPG\" \/>Dr. John Jung, author of four books on the culture and history of southern Chinese, returns to campus Tuesday, September 20 at 6 p.m. in Jobe Auditorium for &ldquo;Beyond Black &amp; White: The Chinese-American Experience.&rdquo;&nbsp; Facilitated by Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies Dr. Albert Nylander, the evening&rsquo;s discussion features Jung examining issues faced by early Chinese Americans, with particular focus on the southern experience. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>John Jung is a professor of psychology emeritus at California State University, Long Beach. Retiring in 2005, Jung found time to reflect on how being a member of the only Chinese family in Macon, Georgia, affected the lives of his immigrant parents and their children as they operated a laundry from the 1920s to 1950s before the civil rights era.&nbsp; Thinking about what it means to be &ldquo;Chinese&rdquo; when everyone else around you is either &ldquo;black or white&rdquo; led to the publication of Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Other titles by the author include Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain, Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: The Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers and Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants.&nbsp; These titles will also be available at the event for purchase. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>This event is free and the public is invited to attend.&nbsp; This event is made possible through the collaborative efforts of the University Diversity Committee, Office of Graduate &amp; Continuing Studies, and the University Archives &amp; Museum.&nbsp; For more information contact Dr. Albert Nylander at 662-846-4700, or Georgene Clark, chair of the University Diversity Committee at 662-846-4078.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Jung, author of four books on the culture and history of southern Chinese, returns to campus Tuesday, September 20 at 6 p.m. in Jobe Auditorium for \u201cBeyond Black &amp; White: The Chinese-American Experience.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41156,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/41156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}