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The new Chinese America : class, economy, and social hierarchy / Xiaojian Zhao.
LIBRA E184.C5 Z43123 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhao, Xiaojian, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--History.
- Chinese Americans.
- History.
- Chinese Americans--Social conditions.
- Chinese Americans--Economic conditions.
- Community life--United States--History.
- Community life.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- Social conditions.
- Ethnic relations.
- Dominance (Psychology).
- United States.
- Social classes--United States--History.
- Social classes.
- Dominance (Psychology)--United States--History.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States--Social conditions--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 201 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Rethinking Chinese America
- Contemporary Chinese American population : the documented and the invisible
- Drawing lines of class distinctions
- "Serve the people" : the ethnic economy
- The "spirit of change" : constructing a regional identity
- Surviving poverty in an ethnic social hierarchy
- Conclusion: Inclusion or exclusion?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813546919
- 0813546915
- 9780813546926
- 0813546923
- OCLC:
- 326466275
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