 
JOHN JUNG is a retired psychology professor from California State University, Long Beach. He graduated with his BA from U. C. Berkeley in 1959 and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Northwestern University in 1962. For over 40 years in his academic career, he balanced teaching psychology and conducting research in diverse areas including memory, addiction, and health psychology. For 25 years, the National Institute of Mental Health funded his program for mentoring minority students to more...
JOHN JUNG is a retired psychology professor from California State University, Long Beach. He graduated with his BA from U. C. Berkeley in 1959 and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Northwestern University in 1962. For over 40 years in his academic career, he balanced teaching psychology and conducting research in diverse areas including memory, addiction, and health psychology. For 25 years, the National Institute of Mental Health funded his program for mentoring minority students to pursue doctoral training in psychology, with over 25 students so far obtaining their PhDs. Under a new grant in 2006 from the same federal agency, he directed a mentoring program to assist young faculty researchers in obtaining grants.
In 2002 he retired and 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 in from the 1920s to 1950s before the civil rights era. Thinking about what it means to be “Chinese” when everyone else around you is either “black or white” led to the 2005 publication of “Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South.”
Writing this memoir stimulated Dr. Jung to do more extensive research about Chinese American history to understand the key role that the laundry business played for their economic success, leading to the publication of, “Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain,” which blends historical events and issues with narratives written by those who grew up in laundries describing the lives of laundrymen and their families. In 2008, he completed “Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton,” a social history of the immigrant Chinese and their families who ran grocery stores in the Mississippi River Delta for much of the past century.
His hope is that his books can help preserve some aspects of Chinese American history that have received relatively less attention.
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