Format:
Online-Ressource (462 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520243102
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0520243099
Content:
Described by others as quaint and exotic, or as depraved and threatening, and, more recently, as successful and exemplary, the Chinese in America have rarely been asked to describe themselves in their own words. This superb anthology, a diverse and illuminating collection of primary documents and stories by Chinese Americans, provides an intimate and textured history of the Chinese in America from their arrival during the California Gold Rush to the present. Among the documents are letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs; many have never b
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Early Chinese Immigrants, 1852-1904; Songs of Gold Mountain Wives; Norman Asing, To His Excellency Governor Bigler (1852); The Founding of Golden Hill's News (1854); Sing Kum, Letter by a Chinese Girl (1876); Documents of the Chinese Six CompaniesPertaining to Immigration; The Second Exhumation and Return of the Remainsof Our Departed Friends to the Homeland (1876); Wen Bing Chung, Reminiscences of a Pioneer Student (1923); Wong Hau-hon, Reminiscences of anOld Chinese Railroad Worker (1926)
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Huang Zunxian, Memorandum No. 29 to Envoy Zheng (1882)Memorial of Chinese Laborers atRock Springs, Wyoming (1885); Saum Song Bo, A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty (1885); Huie Kin, Reminiscences of an Early Chinese Minister (1932); Bow On Guk (Protective Bureau) (1887); Wong Chin Foo, Why Am I a Heathen? (1887); Yan Phou Lee, Why I Am Not a Heathen:A Rejoinder to Wong Chin Foo (1887); Jee Gam, The Geary Act: From the Standpoint of a Christian Chinese(1892); Elizabeth Wong, Leaves from the Life History of a Chinese Immigrant(1936); Kam Wah Chung Letters (1898-1903)
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Part II: Life under Exclusion, 1904-1943Ng Poon Chew, The Treatment of the Exempt Classes of Chinesein the U.S. (1908); Detention in the Wooden Building (1910); Chin Gee Hee, Letter Asking for Supportto Build the Sunning Railroad (1911); Chinese-American Citizens' Alliance, Admissionof Wives of American Citizens of Oriental Ancestry (1926); Gong Yuen Tim, "Just plain old luck and good timing":Reminiscences of a Gold Mountain Man (1988); Helen Hong Wong, "I was the only Chinese woman in town":Reminiscences of a Gold Mountain Woman (1982); Pardee Lowe, Second-Generation Dilemmas (1930s)
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Anna May Wong, I Am Growing More Chinese-Each Passing Year! (1934)Declaration of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (1933); Chinese Women's Association Condensed Reportfor the Years 1932-1936; Happy Lim, Song of Chinese Workers (1938); Lim P. Lee, Chinatown Goes Picketing (1938); Liu Liangmo, Paul Robeson: The People's Singer (1950); Jew Baak Ming, The Founding ofMcGehee Chinese School (1944); Eddie Fung, "There but for the grace of God go I":The Story of a POW Survivor in World War II (2002); Gilbert Woo, One Hundred and Seven Chinese (1943)
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Part III: Becoming an Integral Part of America,1943-2003Chinese News Service, San Francisco Chinese Papers BlameImmigration Practices in Suicide of Chinese Woman (1948); Eddie Gong, I Want to Marry an American Girl (1955); Hsue-shen Tsien, My Bitter Experiencein the United States (1956); Maurice Chuck, Father and Son (1995); Ah Quon McElrath, "We gave workers a sense of dignity":The Story of a Union Social Worker (1982); Sheila Chin Morris, "All the daddies were Chinese and all the mommieswere white": Growing Up Biracial in Minnesota (2002)
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Bonnie C. Lew, "I always felt out of place there":Growing Up Chinese in Mississippi (1982)
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520243101
Additional Edition:
Print version Chinese American Voices : From the Gold Rush to the Present
Language:
English
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