Bennet Bronson

Bennet Bronson - Chinese American History
Bennet Bronson, together with Chuimei Ho, is the author of Coming Home in Gold Brocade: Chinese in Early Northwest America (2015).  The book is a comprehensive history of Chinese immigrants in the Pacific Northwest between 1788 and 1911 and provides insights into their contributions, trials, and daily lives.  While Coming Home does not shy away from addressing the racist attitudes, laws, and the violence experienced by many immigrants, it avoids adding another victim narrative to the Chinese American story. Instead, the book presents the early generations of Chinese immigrants as people to be admired for the strength, courage, and intelligence they showed in adapting to a rich but often hostile foreign land.  Bronson is also co-author of Pearls: A Natural History (2001) and Splendors of the Forbidden City: The Glorious Age of Qianlong (2004).  Formerly a curator of Asian Archaeology and Ethnology at Chicago's Field Museum and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicaco, Bronson now is co-editor and webmaster of the 'Chinese in Northwest America Research Committee' website cinarc.org
Bennet Bronson
Bennet Bronson