Meet Gordon Chang: From Piedmont to pioneering Asian American history at Stanford

Meet Gordon Chang: From Piedmont to pioneering Asian American history at Stanford

“To understand an Asian American experience, one needs to understand history, society, sociology, culture, religious ideas — that’s what constitutes Asian American studies,” Gordon Chang M.A. ’72 Ph.D. ’87, history professor and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, told The Daily.  For Chang, studying history is also personal. “It places individual experiences in a broader continuum and context,” he said. “That’s why I would recommen…