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The Chinese Americans
Benson Tong
ISBN: 0-313-30544-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30544-3
280 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/2000
List Price: $55.00 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)
Discount Price: $27.50 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: The New Americans
Description: The volume begins with an overview of China in the Late Qing period, setting the stage for the successive waves of Chinese immigration to the United States. Chinese Americans, like other immigrants, have come to seek their fortune, and each generation has newly negotiated their position in society and their ethnic identity as they try to support their families. Students, teachers, and interested readers will follow the progress of these immigrants as they become part of the American mosaic and learn about the problems they have encountered along the way and continue to encounter such as racism and job discrimination. Their contributions to building this country and shaping U.S. history are discussed in terms of a complex relationship with the larger community.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
    Preface
    Roots of a Diaspora: Chinese Culture and Society in the Late Qing Period
    Travelers to Gold Mountain: Immigration, Labor, and Exclusion
    Nationalism and Americanization Before World War II
    New Ties and New Lives in Cold War America
    Socioeconomic Mobility and the Ethnic Economy
    Political Mobilization and Empowerment
    The Arts and Chinese Americans
    Chinese American Families and Identities
    Appendix
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: BENSON TONG is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. He is the author of Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (1994) and Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Reformer and Tribal Leader (1999).
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