1. Liu, Overseas Chinese Education in the U.S.A., 37–50 was the source for the 1957 statistics for mainland schools. The Chinese of Hawaii Who’s Who, 1956–1957 (Honolulu, Hawaii: United Chinese Penman Club, 1957), 38–44 was the source for statistics for schools in Hawaii. Joanna Yueh-Mei Lin, “The Past, Present and Future of the Chinese Language Schools in the United States” was the source for the 1978–1979, 1980, and 1985 statistics. The 1995 statistics came from a 1995 NCACLS survey. Each survey used somewhat different definitions of a Chinese language school so that the surveys from the different years are not directly comparable. For example, the Liu survey from the 1950s excluded schools meeting once per week. Similarly the 1978–1979 survey did not show any school in Texas. Yet the weekend school run by Houston’s Institute of Chinese Culture had already been in operation since 1970! The 1995 survey, however, included both weekend and weekday schools. Thus these statistics should be regarded as approximate and most were on the low side.
