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Dreaming of gold, dreaming of home : transnationalism and migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 / Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin.
- Series:
- Asian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--History.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese--Migrations--History.
- Chinese.
- Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Chinese Americans--Social conditions.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- United States.
- California--Emigration and immigration--History.
- California.
- China--Emigration and immigration--History.
- China.
- Taishan Xian (Guangdong Sheng, China)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Taishan Xian (Guangdong Sheng, China).
- Nationalism--Social aspects--China--History.
- Nationalism.
- Nationalism--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Chinese--Migrations.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Nationalism--Social aspects.
- China--Taishan Xian (Guangdong Sheng).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2000.
- Summary:
- "This book is a study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and magazines, supplemented by fieldwork and interviews as well as recent scholarship in Chinese social history, the author presents a much richer depiction than we have had heretofore of the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in"Gold Mountain.""--Jacket.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: An Elastic Community
- 2. California Dreaming: Migration and Dependency
- 3. Slipping Through the Golden Gate: Immigration Under Chinese Exclusion
- 4. Surviving the Gold Mountain Dream: Taishanese American Families
- 5. Magazines as Marketplaces: A Community in Dispersion
- 6. Heroic Returns: The Railroad Empire of Chen Yixi, 1904-1939
- 7. Conclusion: Unraveling the Bonds of Native Place.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin. Dreaming of gold, dreaming of home.
- ISBN:
- 0804738149
- 9780804738149
- 9780804746878
- 0804746877
- OCLC:
- 44700866
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- Publisher description
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