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| Title: | Chinese Americans, Revised Edition
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| Author: | Benson Tong |
| ISBN: | 0870817302 : 9780870817304 |
| Illustrations: | 16 b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 307 |
| Weight: | .476 Kg. |
| Published: | University Press of Colorado - June 2003 |
| List Price: | 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | China: USA: Social & cultural history: Immigration & emigration |
Originally published in 2000, this fully revised and redesigned edition traces the Chinese experience in the United States from the 1780s to the present, demonstrating that Chinese Americans have played an active role in shaping the history of our nation. This revised edition includes new material on children's history, transnationalism, and health care, and the author has expanded his original text and included more Chinese American voices.
Roots of a Diaspora: Chinese Culture and Society in the Late Qing Period; Travellers to Gold Mountain: Immigration, Labour and Exclusion; Nationalism and Americanisation Before 1945; New Ties and New Lives in Cold War America; Socioeconomic Mobility and the Ethnic Economy; Political Mobilisation and Empowerment; The Arts and Chinese Americans; Chinese American Families and Identities; Index.
