Conclusion

          While we hope the stories of Wen Ho Lee, Sherry Chen, and Harry Sheng have helped humanize Chinese Americans while presenting inconsistencies within American criminal justice, it is important to note that this is not a complete history of Chinese Americans and surveillance. We’ve had to make conscious decisions about which events to include and which to exclude on the basis of how they tell the story of Chinese American lives disrupted by American surveillance, yet so many equally important details which would be important could not be fit within the timeline. This is something we’ve had to deal with as we sought to interpret and draw conclusions about our timelines, and we hoped our commentary has demonstrated that this history is both extremely important yet frighteningly complex. Despite these concerns, we feel that this project demonstrates a first step towards producing a history of Chinese American surveillance, and we hope this has provoked or even inspired deeper questions about what it means to be Chinese American or Asian American within America.