The Chinese in America : a history from Gold Mountain to the new millennium
Demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the experience of Chinese immigration in America. This book is a useful resource on the Asian immigrant experience for researchers and students in Chinese American studies, Asian American history, immigration studies, and American history.
Print Book, English, 2002
AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA, 2002
xii, 463 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 24 cm.
9780759100008, 9780759100015, 0759100004, 0759100012
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7. The Recurrent Image of the Coolie: Representations of Chinese American Labor in American Periodicals, 1900-1924 124
Shirley Sui Ling Tam
8. The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Fisheries in California 140
Linda Bentz and Robert Schwemmer
9. The Seaweed Gatherers on the Central Coast of California 156
Dolores K. Young
10. The Five Eras of Chinese Medicine in California 174
William M. Bowen
PART IV INFLUENCES: FROM OLD WORLD TO NEW WORLD
11. The Chinese Empire Reform Association (Baohuanghui) and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott: The Power of a Voluntary Association 195
Jane Leung Larson
12. Between Two Worlds: The Zhigongtang and Chinese American Funerary Rituals 217
Sue Fawn Chung
13. Family and Culture in the Control of the Delinquent Chinese Boy in America 239
Sheldon X. Zhang
14. Unbound Feet: A Metaphor for the Transformation of the Chinese Immigrant Female in Chinese American Literature 260
Bonnie Khaw-Posthuma. 15. Nationalism, Orientalism, and an Unequal Treatise of Ethnography: The Making of The Good Earth 274
Zhiwei Xiao
PART V ESTABLISHING A CHINESE AMERICAN IDENTITY
16. The "In Search of Roots" Program: Constructing Identity through Family History Research and a Journey to the Ancestral Land 293
Albert Cheng and Him Mark Lai
17. Ah Quin: One of San Diego's Founding Fathers 308
Murray K. Lee
18. Contesting Identities: Youth Rebellion in San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953-1969 329
Chiou-ling Yeh
19. Mothers' "China Narrative": Recollection and Translation in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife 351
Yuan Yuan
20. Finding the Right Gesture: Becoming Chinese American in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone 365
Vivian Fumiko Chin
PART VI CHINESE AMERICA: SETTLED
21. Archaeological Investigations of Life within the Woolen Mills Chinatown, San Jose 381
R. Scott Baxter and Rebecca Allen. 22. The Chinese Immigrants in Baja California: From the Cotton Fields to the City, 1920-1940 399
Catalina Veldzquez Morales
23. The Urban Pattern of Portland, Oregon's First Chinatown 416
marie rose wong
24. The Diverse Nature of San Diego's Chinese American Communities 434
Ying Zeng
Papers from the Sixth Chinese American Conference, held July 9-11, 1999 and hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of Greater San Diego and Baja California. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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