Forever Struggle

"Forever Struggle is an accessibly written and broad political, social, and economic history of Boston's Chinatown. Liu has uncovered the fascinating and previously overlooked story of one of Boston's most vital ethnic communities."—Anthony Bak Buccitelli, author of City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston

"Forever Struggle describes opportunities for and challenges to building cross-racial alliances that address shared concerns regarding police brutality, environmental racism, bureaucratic, real estate–driven city planning, and exclusion from local policy decision-making. This is the most important contribution of this book . . . most Chinatown studies tend to emphasize these communities''enclave' qualities, reinforcing the sense of insularity, self-sufficiency, and clannishness."—Tarry Hum, author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park

"In his accessible and illuminating new book, Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018, Michael Liu tracks the transformation of this low-income, immigrant neighborhood's relationship to Boston. The book gives a rich and thorough history of this cross-section of the city, and details a neighborhood that's long been 'under tremendous pressure.'"—Boston Globe

"Forever Struggle succeeds in contributing to the public debate on local governance, urban planning, and the impact of urban renewal policies as well as the various development pressures that threaten the survival of well-established ethnic enclaves."—Journal of Urban Affairs