Format:
1 online resource (338 pages)
ISBN:
9780804783361
Series Statement:
Asian America
Content:
The first comprehensive, comparative and interpretive history of a highly important historical settlement of Chinese / Chinese Americans in the U.S., Chinese Chicago focuses on three crucial issues that define the Chinese in Chicago: race, transnational migration, and community, and investigates significant historical developments from the arrival of the three Moy brothers in the 1870s to the present "tripartite" communities.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation and Terminology -- Introduction: Rethinking Chinese Chicago -- 1. Searching for Roots of a Transnational Community -- 2. Locating Chinatown,1870s-1910s -- 3. Operating Transnational Businesses, 1880s-1930s -- 4. Living Transnational Lives, 1880s-1930s -- 5. Bridging the Two Worlds: Community Organizations, 1870s-1945 -- 6. Connecting the Two Worlds: Chinese Students and Intellectuals, 1920s-2010s -- 7. Diverging and Converging Transnational Communities, 1945-2010s -- Epilogue: The "Hollow Center Phenomenon" and the Future of Transnational Migration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804775588
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804775588
Language:
English
Keywords:
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