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The children of Chinatown : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / Wendy Rouse Jorae.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rouse, Wendy L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--History.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese American children--California--San Francisco--History.
- Chinese American children.
- Children--California--San Francisco--History.
- Children.
- Chinese American families--California--San Francisco--History.
- Chinese American families.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--History.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Social conditions.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--History.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally
- Contents:
- Introduction: Constructing childhood in early Chinatown : image versus reality
- The immigration of Chinese children and the Chinese question
- Recentering the Chinese family in early Chinese American history
- For the family back home : Chinese children at work
- Challenging segregation : Chinese children at school
- Articles of contention : Chinese children in the missions and courts
- Children of the new Chinatown
- Conclusion: Constructing the future.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908837-7-3
- 979-88-9313-352-3
- 1-4696-0537-6
- 0-8078-9858-9
- OCLC:
- 489151017
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