Especially for the past ten-odd years, large numbers of Chinese have migrated to America from Taiwan, the mainland and Hong Kong. The dramatic changes they have brought to the overseas Chinese community are far beyond the imagination of the overseas student literature or immigrant novels of the past.
尤其近十餘年來，大批華人自台灣、香港，及大陸移民美國，他們為海外僑社所帶來的劇烈變化，已不是早年的留學生小說或移民小說所能想像。