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Author | : Allen Gee |
Publisher | : Santa Fe Writer's Project |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1939650313 |
Eloquently written essays about aspects of Asian American life comprise this collection that looks at how Asian-Americans view themselves in light of America's insensitivities, stereotypes, and expectations. My Chinese-America speaks on masculinity, identity, and topics ranging from Jeremy Lin and immigration to profiling and Asian silences. This essays have an intimacy that transcends cultural boundaries, and casts light on a vital part of American culture that surrounds and influences all of us.
Author | : Xiaojian Zhao |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813530116 |
In Remaking Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao explores the myriad forces that changed and unified Chinese Americans during a key period in American history. Prior to 1940, this immigrant community was predominantly male, but between 1940 and 1965 it was transformed into a family-centered American ethnic community. Zhao pays special attention to forces both inside and outside of the country in order to explain these changing demographics. She scrutinizes the repealed exclusion laws and the immigration laws enacted after 1940. Careful attention is also paid to evolving gender roles, since women constituted the majority of newcomers, significantly changing the sex ratio of the Chinese American population. As members of a minority sharing a common cultural heritage as well as pressures from the larger society, Chinese Americans networked and struggled to gain equal rights during the cold war period. In defining the political circumstances that brought the Chinese together as a cohesive political body, Zhao also delves into the complexities they faced when questioning their personal national allegiances. Remaking Chinese America uses a wealth of primary sources, including oral histories, newspapers, genealogical documents, and immigration files to illuminate what it was like to be Chinese living in the United States during a period that--until now--has been little studied.
Author | : Min Zhou |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1592138594 |
A sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experience.
Author | : Kelley Hunsicker |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Chinese Americans |
ISBN | : 1429613556 |
It's 1850, and you are fleeing war and starvation in your homeland of China. You sell everything you have to go to a place in America called Gold Mountain, better known as California. Do you try to strike it rich in the gold mines of California? or ..., Will you seek your fortune in San Francisco's Chinatown? or ..., Will you work as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad?
Author | : Charlotte Harris Rees |
Publisher | : Light Messages Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2014-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611530814 |
A Chinese classic, the Shan Hai Jing, reportedly from 2000 BC claimed travels to the ends of the earth. However, today many, while accepting the antiquity of this account, believe it was just mythology. But was it?Testing the hypothesis that the Shan Hai Jing described actual surveys of North America, Charlotte Harris Rees, author of books about early Chinese exploration, followed an alleged 1100 mile Chinese trek along the eastern slope of the US Rocky Mountains. The Chinese account should have been easy to disprove. In the travelogue Did Ancient Chinese Explore America? Rees candidly shares her initial doubts then her search and discoveries. She weaves together history, subtle humor, academic studies, and many photographs to tell a compelling story.
Author | : Gene Luen Yang |
Publisher | : First Second |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2006-09-06 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466805463 |
A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections
Author | : Chinese Historical Society of America |
Publisher | : Chinese Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1885864051 |
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Publisher | : Chinese Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Chinese |
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Publisher | : Chinese Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 125 |
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Publisher | : Chinese Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Chinese Americans |
ISBN | : 1885864094 |