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American exodus : second-generation Chinese Americans in China 1901-1949 / Charlotte Brooks.
LIBRA E184.C5 B735 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Charlotte, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--China--20th century.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Second-generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901-1949
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- New lives in the south: Chinese American merchant and student immigrants
- The modernizers: US-educated Chinese Americans in China
- The Golden Age ends: Chinese Americans and the rise of anti-imperialist nationalism
- The Nanjing decade: Chinese American immigrants and the nationalist regime
- Agonizing choices: the war against Japan, 1937-1945
- Conclusion
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "A Philip E. Lilienthal Book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "In the early twentieth century, between one-third and one-half of all native-born Chinese American citizens left the United States for China under the assumption that they would never permanently return to the land of their birth. American Exodus explores this little-known aspect of modern Chinese and American history through the lives of the thousands of Chinese Americans who settled in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and the Pearl River Delta"--Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brooks, Charlotte, 1971- American exodus.
- ISBN:
- 9780520302679
- 0520302672
- 9780520302686
- 0520302680
- OCLC:
- 1083153080
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