The lucky ones : one family and the extraordinary invention of Chinese America / Mae M. Ngai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ngai, Mae M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tapp family.

Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation--California--San Francisco.

Chinese Americans.

Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Biography.

Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Ethnic identity.

Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--History--19th century.

Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Social conditions--19th century.

Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Social conditions--20th century.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

Expanded pbk ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans. Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 case Tape v. Hurley. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how Chinese American brokers essentially invented Chinatown, and so Chinese culture, for American audiences. Finally, The Lucky Ones reveals aspects--timely, haunting, and hopeful--of the lasting legacy of the immigrant experience for all Americans. This expanded edition features a new preface and a selection of historical documents from the Chinese exclusion era that forms the backdrop to the Tape family's story.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Author's Note

Tape Family Tree

Part I. Strivings (1864-1883)

Part II. School Days (1884-1894)

Part III. Native Sons and Daughters (1895-1904)

Part IV. The Interpreter Class (1905-19117)

Part V. Reinventions (1917-1950)

Epi logue

Glossary of Chinese Names

Acknowledgments

Notes

Appendix. Documents from the Chinese Exclusion Era

Index

Notes:

"Expanded paperback edition with a new preface by the author."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9786613852380

9781283539937

1283539934

9781400845033

1400845033

OCLC:

795331155