Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Origins
2. Oahu and Riverside
3. Claremont and Colusa
4. Roberts Island
5. Idria
6. Hollister
7. Willos
8. Marriage
9. Growing Rice
10. Selling Produce
11. Farming Again
12. World War II
13. Discrimination
14. Sons
15. Old Age
16. Reflections
Appendix A | The Historiographer’s Role
Appendix B | Operating a Korean American Family Farm
Appendix C | Korean Rice Growers in the Sacramento Valley
Bibliographic Essay
Illustrations
Maps:
Korea: At the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
California
Photographs:
The Paik family, Korea 1905
Passport issued to Paik Sin Koo, 1905
Church on (Ewa?) plantation
Paik Sin Koo, Hawaii, 1905
First grade class, Washington Irving School, Riverside, 1907
The Paik family, Idria, 1915
Transcript for Kuang Paik, San Benito High School, Hollister 1916-17
Paik relatives left behind in Korea, ca. 1917
Hung Man Lee at age twenty-two, Mexico City, 1914
Flooded rice fields, Willows, 1919
Henry Lee and his parents, Anaheim, 1926
The Paik and Lee families, Tremonton, Utah, 1926
Blackboard with Korean alphabet, Tremonton, Utah, 1926
Charlotte Paik with stone mill, Utah, 1926
Henry and Allan Lee and their mother, Anaheim, 1929
Henry Lee and his parents, El Modeno, 1934
Kindergarten class, Norwalk, 1934
Lee family’s produce stand, Whittier, 1940
Lee family’s apartment building, Los Angeles, 1950
Tony Lee and his parents, Los Angeles, 1950
Mr. and Mrs. H.M. Lee, Los Angeles, 1960
With Henry Lee’s Family, Los Angeles, 1969
Fiftieth wedding anniversary, Los Angeles, 1969
Paik siblings, Los Angeles, 1969
H.M. Lee with his half-brother and nephew, Seoul, Korea, 1972
Mrs. Lee with two sons and two granddaughters, Santa Cruz, 1987
Mr. and Mrs. Paik Sin Koo, Tremonton, Utah, 1926
Mary Kuang Sun Paik Lee, San Francisco, 1987