The Chinese in America A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium |
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Editor:
| Cassel, Susie Lan |
Contribution by:
| Liu, Haiming Valentine, David Jew, Victor Rusco, Elmer R. Lee, Nancy S. Ling Tam, Shirley Sui Bentz, Linda Schwemmer, Robert V. Young, Dolores Bowen, William Larson, Jane Leung Chung, Sue Fawn Zhang, Sheldon Khaw-Posthuma, Bonnie Xiao, Zhiwei Cheng, Albert Lai, Him Mark Lee, Murray Yeh, Chiou-ling Yuan, Yuan Chin, Vivian Baxter, R. Scott Allen, Rebecca Morales, Catalina Velasquez wong, marie rose Zeng, Ying |
Series title: | Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7591-0001-5 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2002 |
Publisher: | AltaMira Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $61.00 |
Book Description:
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This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. 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...
More DescriptionThis new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. 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 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.