Yong Chen is Professor of History and Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow at UCI, where he served as the Associate Dean in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies (1999-2004). He is the author of Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America (Columbia University Press, 2014); Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943 (Stanford, 2000) and The Chinese in San Francisco (Peking University Press, 2009), and co-editor of New Perspectives on American History (Hebei People鈥檚 Publishing House, 2010). He was also the co-curator of 鈥溾�楬ave You Eaten Yet?鈥�: The Chinese Restaurant in America鈥� in Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia (2006), and the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York City (2004鈥�05). He serves on the National Landmarks Committee of the advisory board of the National Park Service of the United States.