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Asian tragedies in the Americas : Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories / Won K. Yoon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoon, Won K., 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--America--History--19th century.
- Chinese.
- Japanese--America--History--19th century.
- Japanese.
- Koreans--America--History--19th century.
- Koreans.
- America.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants' experiences. Won K.Yoon examines such phenomena as Chinese paper (fraudulent) wives and daughters, Korean picture marriages, and Japanese war brides, analyzing the impact of racism and colonialism on East Asian groups and family experiences in the West. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Western Encounters and Encroachments in East Asia
- A Floating Hell in Devil's Throat
- The Coolie Mart and Bitter Sugar in Cuba
- A One-way Passage to a Peruvian Hell
- Paper Children: The Enticement of Gold Mountain
- Koreans in Thorny Henequen Fields in Yucatan
- A Korean Picture Marriage: The Lure of Hawaii
- Peruvian Japanese in U.S. Relocation Camps
- An Empire Never Defeated: The Japanese in Brazil
- Japanese War Brides Following G.I. Husbands
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-7936-2854-8
- OCLC:
- 1235596683
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