The Chinese Americans / Benson Tong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tong, Benson, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese Americans.

Physical Description:

xvi, 307 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2003]

Summary:

Originally published in 2000, this fully revised and redesigned edition of The Chinese Americans traces the Chinese experience in the United States from the 1780s to the present, demonstrating that Chinese Americans have played an active role in shaping the history of our nation. This revised edition includes new material on children's history, transnationalism, and religiosity, and the author has expanded his original text and included more Chinese American voices.

Contents:

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 1945

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-294) and index.

ISBN:

0870817302

OCLC:

51937002