Publications
Books
At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus Among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Press, 2016.
Sustaining Faith Traditions: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation. Edited with Carolyn Chen, New York: New York University Press, 2012.
Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches, New Brunswick, NY: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Film Documentary
The Oak Park Story. Produced with Valerie Soe, San Francisco, CA 2010.
Articles
"Dancing with a Ghost: A Cambodian Exorcism in Oakland,"
Boom: A Journal of California, Vol. 5 No. 4, Winter 2015; (pp. 64-71).
"Secularization and Asian Americans"
In Asian American Religious Cultures, edited by Jonathan Lee, Jane Iwamura, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, and Ron Nakasone, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio Press, 2015, 136-144.
"Chinese American Religions"
Written with Lisa Mar. In Asian American Religious Cultures, edited by Jonathan Lee, Jane Iwamura, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, and Ron Nakasone, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio Press, 2015, 290-295.
"Redefining Religious Nones: Lessons from Chinese and Japanese American Young Adults"
Co-written with Brett Esaki and Alice Liu, Religions 2015, 6(3), 891-911.
"The Globalization and Racialization of Asian American Churches"
Common Ground Journal, 2015, 12 (1), 31-38.
"Hakka Diasporic Tales: Exilic Understandings of Shalom in California"
Cultural Encounters, 2014, 10 (2), 106-114.
“Asian Americans in Multiethnic Ministry”
Co-written with Kathleen Garces Foley. Religions. 2013, 4(2), 190-208.
“Keeping the Traditions: A Comparison of Cantonese-Mandarin-Speaking Chinese American Immigrants.”
International Symposium on “International Migration and Qiaoxiang Studies“ Conference Proceedings. Vol. 1. Jiangmen, PRC: Guangdong Qiaoxiang Cultural Research Center, Wuyi University. 315-335.
“Introduction: Racial, and Ethnic Identities of the New Second Generation”
“Second-Generation Chinese Americans and the Familism of the Nonreligious”
In Sustaining Faith Traditions: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation. Edited with Carolyn Chen, New York: New York University Press, 2012.
“Asian Americans, Religion and the 2008 Election” (with Soyoung Kim)
In Religion, Race, and Barack Obama’s New Democratic Pluralism. Gaston Espinosa. Routledge Press. 2012.
"Faith-Based Multiethnic Tenant Organizing: The Oak Park Story" (reprint)
In Readings of Diversity and Justice. Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda, Heather Hackman, Madeline L Peters, Ximena Zuniga, eds., New York: Routledge Press, 2012.
“Asian American Religions and Identity”
In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues, edited by Edith Chen and Grace Yoo, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2010.
“Asian American Studies Tours as Pilgrimages of Memory.”
In At 40: Asian American Studies @ San Francisco State. Ed. Jeffery Paul Chan, et al. San Francisco: AAS Department, San Francisco State University. 2009:121-123.
“To Serve the Community: The Fourth Decade of Community Service Learning at Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University.”
In At 40: Asian American Studies @ San Francisco State. Ed. Jeffery Paul Chan, et al. San Francisco: AAS Department, San Francisco State University. 2009:157-162.
“The Use of Religious Repertoires in Asian America.”(with Marian Wang).
In At 40: Asian American Studies @ San Francisco State. Ed. Jeffery Paul Chan, et al. San Francisco: AAS Department, San Francisco State University. 2009:199-204.
“Chinese American Demographic Change in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1990-2000.” (With Dean Adachi.)
In The 2008 Report: The Bay Area Chinese Churches Project. Castro Valley, CA: Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity.
“Guilds, Unions, and Garment Factories: Notes on Chinese in the Apparel Industry.” (With Him Mark Lai).
Labor and San Francisco’s Garment Industry. Spec. issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives 2008:1-10.
“The Loss of the Garment Industry Is Part of a Cycle: An Interview with Fei Yi Chen, Community Organizer for the Chinese Progressive Association.” Tr. Wai Sum Leung, Cheuk Lap Lo, and Aaron Ng.
Labor and San Francisco’s Garment Industry. Spec. issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives 2008: 65-66.
“The Only Thing I Could Do Was Sew: An Interview with Li Qin Zhou.” Tr. Wai Sum Leung and Cheuk Lap Lo.
Labor and San Francisco’s Garment Industry. Spec. issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives 2008: 61-62.
“The Oak Park Story: Organizing a Faith-based, Multi-ethnic Community”
In Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Asian American Religious Leadership Today: A Preliminary Inquiry
Co-written report for the Pulpit and Pew Project, Duke University. July 2005.
“Creating an Asian American Christian Subculture: Grace Community Covenant Church”
In Asian American Religions: the Making and Unmaking of Borders and Boundaries. Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang, eds. 2004. New York: NYU Press.
“Gung Ho: Community Building and Asian American Christians”
In The Cresset: A Review of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs 2003. Valparaiso, IN: Valpairaiso University Press.
“New Asian American Churches and Symbolic Racial Identity”
In Revealing the Sacred in Asia America: Writings on Religion. Jane Iwamura and Paul Spickard, eds. 2003. New York: Routledge Press.
“Comparing Evangelical and Mainline Asian American Pan-Ethnic Congregations”
In Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim, eds. 2002.Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
“Southeast Asians In the House: Multiple Layers of Identity”
In Intersections and Divergences: Contemporary Asian Pacific American Communities. Linda Vo and Rick Bonus, eds. 2002. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.