The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium

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Susie Lan Cassel
Rowman Altamira, 2002 - 463 ˹éÒ
This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Volume editor Cassel relates how the well-publicized accusations of espionage against scientist Wen Ho Lee at the nuclear facility at Los Alamos can be understood as part of an ongoing systemic and institutionalized racism in American society. Chinese-Americans have been courted as "model workers" by American business, but also continue to be perceived as perpetual foreigners. The contributors offer engrossing accounts of the lives of immigrants, their tenacity, their diverse lifeways, from the arrival of the first Chinese gold miners in 1849 into the present day. The 21st century begins as a uniquely "Pacific Century" in the Americas, with an increasingly large presence of Asians in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The book will prove to be a valuable resource on the Asian immigrant experience for researchers and students in Chinese American studies, Asian American history, immigration studies, and American history. The Chinese in America is published in cooperation with the Chinese Historical Society of Greater San Diego and Baja California.

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The Social Origins of Early Chinese Immigrants A Revisionist Perspective
21
Chinese Placer Mining in the United States An Example from American Canyon Nevada
37
To Inscribe the Self Daily The Discovery of the Ah Quin Diary
54
Discrimination and Exclusion across America
75
Exploring New Frontiers in Chinese American History The AntiChinese Riot in Milwaukee 1889
77
Riot in Unionville Nevada A Turning Point
91
Telling Their Own Stories Chinese Canadian Biography as a Historical Genre
106
Livelihood in the New World
123
Unbound Feet A Metaphor for the Transformation of the Chinese Immigrant Female in Chinese American Literature
260
Nationalism Orientalism and an Unequal Treatise of Ethnography The Making of The Good Earth
274
The In Search of Roots Program Constructing Identity through Family History Research and a Journey to the Ancestral Land
293
Ah Quin One of San Diegos Founding Fathers
308
Contesting Identities Youth Rebellion in San Franciscos Chinese New Year Festivals 19531969
329
Mothers China Narrative Recollection and Translation in Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen Gods Wife
351
Finding the Right Gesture Becoming Chinese American in Fae Myenne Ngs Bone
365
Chinese America Settled
379

The Recurrent Image of the Coolie Representations of Chinese American Labor in American Periodicals 19001924
124
The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Fisheries in California
140
The Seaweed Gatherers on the Central Coast of California
156
The Five Eras of Chinese Medicine in California
174
Influences From Old World to New World
193
The Chinese Empire Reform Association Baohuanghui and the 1905 AntiAmerican Boycott The Power of a Voluntary Association
195
Between Two Worlds The Zhigongtang and Chinese American Funerary Rituals
217
Family and Culture in the Control of the Delinquent Chinese Boy in America
239
Archaeological Investigations of Life within the Woolen Mills Chinatown San Jose
381
The Chinese Immigrants in Baja California From the Cotton Fields to the City 19201940
399
The Urban Pattern of Portland Oregons First Chinatown
416
The Diverse Nature of San Diegos Chinese American Communities
434
Index
449
About the Contributors
457
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˹éÒ 4 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects respectively from the one country to the other for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
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Susie Lan Cassel teaches Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, San Marcos, specializing in Asian American and Multicultural American literature.

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