Madeline Y. Hsu is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Center for Asian-American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include migration, trans-nationalism, overseas Chinese, and race and citizenship in the United States. She is the author of Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and Southern China, 1882-1943, and is currently working on a second book, tentatively entitled, Strategic Migrations: Immigration Selection and How the Yellow Peril Became a Model Minority, 1872-1966.