China Books

This book is a systematic study of New York City's Chinatown gangs. First-hand data was collected from a substantial number of gang victims, gang members, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities. Also examined are the details and severity of gang extortion, gang characteristics, gang violence, gang enterprise, and gang control strategies. (For this item please quote stock ID 5492) ISBN: 9780195136272

'Chin creates a poignant picture of the great hardships immigrants have endured in order to pay off debts and send money home to their families ... Recommended for public and academic libraries.' - Library Journal No one knows how many Chinese are being smuggled into the United States, but credible estimates put the number at 50,000 arrivals each year. Astonishing as this figure is, it represents only a portion of the Chinese illegally residing in the United States. Smuggled Chinese presents a detailed account of how this traffic is conducted and what happens to the people who risk their lives to reach Gold Mountain. When the Golden Venture ran aground off New York's coast in 1993 and ten of the 260 Chinese on board drowned, the public outcry about human smuggling became front-page news. Probing into the causes and consequences of this clandestine traffic, Ko-Lin Chin has interviewed more than 300 people ? smugglers, immigrants, government officials, and business owners ? in the United States, China and Taiwan. Their poignant and chilling testimony describes a flourishing industry in which smugglers ? big and little snakeheads ? command fees as high as $30,000 to move desperate but hopeful men and women around the world. For many who survive the hunger, filthy and crowded conditions, physical and sexual abuse, and other perils of the arduous journey, life in the United States, specifically in New York's Chinatown, is a disappointment if not a curse. Few will return to China, though, because their families depend on the money and status gained by having a relative in the States. In Smuggled Chinese, Ko-Lin Chin puts a human face on this intractable international problem, showing how flaws in national policies and lax law enforcement perpetuate the cycle of desperation and suffering. He strongly believes, however, that the problem of human smuggling will continue for as long as China's citizens are deprived of fundamental human rights and economic security. Smuggled Chinese will engage readers interested in human rights, Asian and Asian-American studies, urban studies, and sociology. (For this item please quote stock ID 5493) ISBN: 9781566397339

Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority. Whole regimes have sometimes relied on the financial underpinnings of Chinese business to maintain themselves in power, and recently Chinese businesses have led the drive to economic modernisation in Southeast Asia. But at the same time, they remain, as the Jews were, the quintessential 'outsiders'. In some Southeast Asian countries they are targets of majority nationalist prejudices and suffer from discrimination, even when they are formally integrated into the nation. The essays in this book explore the reasons why the Jews in Central Europe and the Chinese in Southeast Asia have been both successful and stigmatised. Their careful scholarship and measured tone contribute to a balanced view of the subject and introduce a historical depth and comparative perspective that have generally been lacking in past discussions. Those who want to understand contemporary Southeast Asian and the legacy of the Jewish experience in Central Europe will gain new insights from the book. (For this item please quote stock ID 5723) ISBN: 9780295976136

Written in 1955, this diary and sketchbook vividly portrays Vietnamese and Chinese traditions. 'A different species of travel is recorded in this charming book by the author of Home Is the Hunter and Kabloona. For this is a portrait in miniature of a life that is soon to vanish - Four miles from Saigon, Cholon is the Chinese pleasure city, the night city with taxi girls and gambling dens and neon signs in Chinese characters' - Kirkus Reviews. 'de Poncins was there when the trouble broke out, but his book is only incidentally concerned with politics and war. It is, rather, a portrait of a civilisation' - New Yorker. (For this item please quote stock ID 6329) ISBN: 9781879434004

Beyond Chinatown's storytellers are the Chinese Australians who, through oral history, family stories, photographs and their own accounts, place themselves in the mainstream of Australian history. These stories, now united, are important to the understanding of Chinese Australia's history as well as being key records of the formation and make-up of Darwin. As the closest Australian city to Asia, Darwin's social history with the Chinese community is important for any Australian to understand, for as the Prime Minister has stated, Australia is not the doorstep of Asia but part of it, and as such, its influences from the Chinese community make an interesting journey of cultural growth. Diana Giese is a Sydney-based writer and oral history interviewer who recorded many of the accounts and stories presented in this book for the National Library of Australia. She was awarded a 1992 Northern History Grant to document this work. (For this item please quote stock ID 7420) ISBN: 9780642106339

Originally published as newspaper columns, the thirty-odd pieces collected in this volume record aspects of Chinese-American life as it was lived in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1950. (For this item please quote stock ID 8729) ISBN: 9789622014237

An introduction to the literary works of Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Filipino-Americans, and Korean-Americans, this book focuses on the self-images and social contexts of the nineteenth-century immigrants, their descendants, and the Americanised writers of today. Although the book examines the novels, autobiographies, poems, and plays themselves, the social history of Asians in America is a significant backdrop ? as Maxine Hong Kingston herself argues it should be. These racially distinctive Americans have confronted in their lives and writings American stereotypes of the 'Oriental', racial discrimination, and the cultural gulf between East and West. After a chapter on Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, and other Anglo-American caricatures of Asians, the author turns to a discussion of the first immigrant writers, many of whom were educated aristocrats playing the role of cultural ambassadors, and then to the less privileged, more socially critical generations of writers who followed. From works like Flower Drum Song, Eat a Bowl of Tea, The Woman Warrior, China Men, and a host of lesser-known writings, the author shows how portrayals of Chinatown, the Japanese-American family, and the roles of all the Asian-American women and men have changed. Drawing on her personal interviews with Asian-American writers, Kim also conveys their attitudes towards their own group, other Asian-Americans, other racial minorities, and white Americans ? a complex mix of bitterness, acceptance, and militance. (For this item please quote stock ID 8861) ISBN: 9780877223528

Charles McClain's illuminating new study probes Chinese efforts to battle manifold discrimination - in housing, employment, and education - in nineteenth-century America. Challenging the stereotypical image of a passive, insular group, McClain reveals a politically savvy population capable of mobilising to fight mistreatment. He draws on English - and Chinese -language documents and rarely studied sources to chronicle the ways the Chinese sought redress and change in American courts. McClain focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area, the home of almost one-fifth of the fifty thousand Chinese working in California in 1870. He cites cases in which Chinese laundrymen challenged the city of San Francisco's discriminatory building restrictions, and lawsuits brought by parents to protest the exclusion of Chinese children from public schools. While vindication in the courtroom did not always bring immediate change (Chinese school children in San Francisco continued to be segregated well into the twentieth century), the Chinese community's efforts were instrumental in establishing several legal landmarks. In their battles for justice, the Chinese community helped to clarify many judicial issues, including the parameters of the Fourteenth Amendment and the legal meanings of non-discrimination and equality. Discussing a wide range of court cases and gleaning their larger constitutional significance, In Search of Equality brings to light an important chapter of American cultural and ethnic history. It should attract attention from American and legal historians, ethnic studies scholars, and students of California culture. (For this item please quote stock ID 10692) ISBN: 9780520205147

'McCunn's book is a gift to readers yearning for a history of the Chinese in America which does not reduce them to charts and statistics and which does not tell us merely what was done to them. Here we are offered immensely readable vignettes of real people, not faceless Chinese. McCunn has humanised history in her portraits, weaving general history into biographies and introducint us to the Chinese as actors in the past' - Ronald Takaki. 'A fine collection of 150 historic photos interspersed with 17 biographical essays on individual Chinese Americans and their families ... An excellent social history' - Choice. 'An extraordinary book on any level - as a sociological study, as an expose of violent racism in America, as a chronicle of the immigrant epic, as the inter-relationships of powerful and differing cultures. The courage, determination, skill and ambition of the Chinese to make their way forward against the most daunting of obstacles, is a monument to their courage and true heart' - Harrison E. Salisbury. (For this item please quote stock ID 10705) ISBN: 9780295975528

Although they are 'pariah capitalists' who face political insecurity in India, the Hakka Chinese have, since their migration during the First World War, come to control the city of Calcutta's tanning industry. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among the Calcutta Hakka as well as members of their community who have migrated to Toronto, Ellen Oxfeld sheds new light on the complex interrelations among their entrepreneurial ideology, family structures, and ethnicity. (For this item please quote stock ID 11617) ISBN: 9780801498855

The first comprehensive study of the global Chinese diaspora. In The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas, produced under the aegis of the Chinese Heritage Centre, over 50 of the world?s most eminent scholars and writers have assembled for the first time the great patchwork which makes up the Chinese diaspora. Throughout the world there are communities which identify themselves as Chinese. Depicted in this book are the current of history, the economic and political forces, the personal hopes and ambitions, that carried them from China to almost every part of the globe. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas, which includes detailed profiles of 37 Chinese communities, is a masterly survey of a key aspect of world history. Essential reading for all those who can trace their roots to China, it is written also for a much wider audience, and will reveal new insights into the history of human experience and achievement. (For this item please quote stock ID 11650) ISBN: 9789813018921

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyses the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials, and the lower federal courts that took place around the turn of the century established fundamental principles that continue to dominate immigration law today and make it unique among branches of American law. By establishing the centrality of the Chinese to immigration policy, Salyer also integrates the history of Asian immigrants on the West Coast with that of European immigrants in the East. Salyer demonstrates that Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans mounted sophisticated and often-successful legal challenges to the enforcement of exclusionary immigration policies. Ironically, their persistent litigation contributed to the development of legal doctrines that gave the Bureau of Immigration increasing power to counteract resistance. Indeed, by 1924, immigration law had begun to diverge from constitutional norms, and the Bureau of Immigration had emerged as an exceptionally powerful organization, free from many of the constraints imposed upon other government agencies. Lucy Salyer is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. (For this item please quote stock ID 12307) ISBN: 9780807845301

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'Little is known of the Ming Quong Home Orphanage (for Chinese girls) which to many people's surprise was not in China, but here in America in Los Gatos, California on the former Spreckles (sugar) estate. It was here, in 1935 that two-and-a-half year old Nona was left by her mother, who then vanished without a trace. 'The history of Min Quong dates back to 1915, when hundreds of Chinese girls were rescued from a bachelor society and were nurtured and cared for by Caucasian missionary women of the Presbyterian faith. 'Included are the conflicts and every day routines that moulded the author and other Min Quong girls into productive members of society. Learning about their experiences is significant not only in terms of teaching us more about the human spirit and its ability to survivie adversity. There is a lesson in this book for each of us' - March Fong Eu, former Ambassador to Micronesia. 'A book filled with hope for every disadvantaged child. Min Quong's legacy of helping children continues today through the work of Eastfield Ming Quong' - Jerry Doyle, President & CEO, Eastfield Ming Quong. 'I grew up listening to my Auntie Nona's stories aobut Ming Quong where she and my mon were raised. Now, I am so excited that this important piece of Chinese-American history can be shared with the rest of the world' - Brenda Wong Aoki, writer/storyteller. 'Anyone who understands the value of history will welcome Nona Mock Wyman's colourfully detailed memoirs of life in the Ming Quong Home orphanage. It's a slice of Chinese-American life, full of both joys and strife, that's never been chronicled before. Nona expands the definition of family, and does it in compelling style' - Ben Fong-Torres, author, The Rice Room: From Number Two Son to Rock & Roll. (For this item please quote stock ID 16990) ISBN: 9780835126458

'I can imagine there must be a good number of people who will still wonder why I have no pig-tail on my head, or who think I must be the same sort of person as Mr. Wu or Charlie Chan!' By the 1930s Western books about China were common. But a book about the West, and particularly London, written by a Chinese author, was a rarity - and continues to be so. Chiang Yee's account of London, first published in 1938, is original in more ways than one. Not only one of the first widely available books written by a Chinese author in English, it also reverses the conventions of travel writing. For here the 'exotic' subject matter is none other than London and its people, quizzically observed as an alien culture by a foreign writer. Immersing himself in the strange rituals of London life, Chiang Yee set out to learn about Londoners, their habits and their pleasures. In pubs and parks, buses and art galleries, he watched the locals at work and at play. Fascinated by such social conventions as afternoon tea and discussing the weather, he tried to make sense of British society, treating his subjects with a mix of wonderment and affection. Beards, feeding the pigeons, street names: all such everyday phenomena were a source of curiosity. As he lived through the capital's various seasons, and endured the notorious London fogs, Chiang Yee's affinity with the city and its people grew, reflected in his simple and lyrical prose. Illustrated with the author's own atmospheric sketches and Chinese calligraphy, The Silent Traveller in London is also a book about China and a world in transition. Comparing London with his native land, Chiang Yee draws parallels and contrasts, seeking to rectify misunderstandings and stereotypes regarding Chinese life. Explaining many of the central attitudes of Confucianism through anecdotes and folk tales, this book evokes a China under threat from Japanese invasion and a distant homeland viewed with wistful nostalgia. Chiang Yee (1903-1977) was born in China and lived in London before settling in the United States. A painter, calligrapher, poet and travel writer, he produced several volumes in the Silent Traveller series as well as the classic textbook Chinese Calligraphy. (For this item please quote stock ID 17165) ISBN: 9781902669410

Once thought of in terms of geographically bounded spaces, Asian America has undergone profound changes as a result of post-1965 immigration as well as the growth and reshaping of established communities. This collection of original essays demonstrates that conventional notions of community, of ethnic enclaves determined by exclusion and ghettoisation, now have limited use in explaining the dynamic processes of contemporary community formation. Writing from a variety of perspectives, these contributors expand the concept of community to include sites not necessarily bounded by space; formations around gender, class, sexuality, and generation reveal new processes as well as the demographic diversity of today's Asian American population. The case studies gathered here speak to the fluidity of these communities and to the need for new analytic approaches to account for the similarities and differences between them. Taken together, these essays forcefully argue that it is time to replace the outworn concept of a monolithic Asian America. (For this item please quote stock ID 17861) ISBN: 9781566399388

As a book about cultural memory and retrieval, this collection of essays asks readers to reconsider who represents Asian America and what constitutes its history. Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century and the 1960s, the original essays here speak to the difficulty of recovering a past that was largely unrecorded as well as understanding the varied experiences of peoples of Asian descent. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays address the Asian American individuals and communities that have been omitted from 'official' histories; trace the roots of persistent racial stereotypes and myths; and retrieve artistic production that raises vexed questions of what counts as 'art' or as Asian American. By reconsidering the political, cultural, and material history written in the last three decades, this volume contributes to a new understanding of Asian America's past and relationship to the present. (For this item please quote stock ID 17862) ISBN: 9781566399647

In this foundational study, Shehong Chen investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during the crucial period between 1911 and 1927. As the search for a modern China climaxed in the 1911 revolution in China, debates over reform and revolution politicised and divided Chinese communities in the United States. In the early 1910s, Chinese in the United States affirmed traditional Chinese values and expressed their unique visions of a modern China, while nationalist feelings emboldened them to stand up for their right to be regarded as an integral part of U.S. society. When the new Chinese republic faced its first serious threat from Japan in 1915, the Chinese response in the United States began to reveal the limits of Chinese nationalism and the emergence of a Chinese American identity. Chen discerns the crystallisation of four essential elements of a distinct Chinese American identity in the years between 1916 and 1924: support for republicanism over the restoration of monarchy; a wish to preserve Confucianism and traditional Chinese culture, although both were under attack in China; support for Christianity, despite a strong anti-Christian movement in China; and opposition to the Nationalist Party's alliance with the Soviet Union and cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party. Chen derives her portrait of Chinese in the United States from three distinct daily Chinese-language newspapers: a reformist paper representing the U.S. Chinatown elite, a revolutionary paper founded by the nationalist Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen, and an assimilationist paper that advocated adapting Chinese cultural practices to life in the United States. In addition to identifying the ideological elements of the Chinese American identity, Chen documents the building of permanent Chinese American communities, or Chinatowns. Shehong Chen is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. (For this item please quote stock ID 17867) ISBN: 9780252027369

'An excellent inroductory essay places nineteenth-century Chinese immigration in its wider context: the worldwide Chinese migrations, the post-slavery Caribbean background, the contract labour schemes developed after emancipation ... All the documents are well chosen, and together they deal with virtually every important aspect of the migration of Chinese people to the West Indies and their subsequent experiences'. - From the foreword (For this item please quote stock ID 19246) ISBN: 9789766400217

The contribution of the overseas Chinese, particularly from Southeast Asia (Nanyang), to China?s early modernisation constitutes an important and neglected chapter in Chinese history. During the same years which saw the emergence of the Reform and Revolutionary movements, the ruling Manchu government also turned to the overseas Chinese for needed capital and expertise. Exposed to Western values and often successful in capitalist ventures, leading overseas entrepreneurs were in a special position to introduce new concepts into China. Dr Michael R. Godley?s study traces the rise of overseas Chinese capitalism together with the emergence of an aggressive campaign on the part of the Ch?ing dynasty to attract overseas support. The ways in which Southeast Asian Chinese capitalists were ultimately recruited into the Chinese bureaucracy and the conditions under which they were permitted to begin new enterprises cast light upon many socio-economic problems while revealing much about the acculturation process. Contents: Part I The Rise of the Overseas Chinese Capitalist >The foreign experience >Environment & Chinese values >China?s discovery of the Nanyang Chinese >The recruitment of Chang Pi-shih Part II Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernisation of China >A program for the development of industry & commerce >The search for overseas Chinese talent & wealth >South China?s railroad offensive 1904?8 >The overseas Chinese & economic change >Epilogue >Notes >Select bibliography >Glossary >Index (For this item please quote stock ID 20011) ISBN: 9780521526951

The first detailed examination of the link between the 'Chinese question' and the 'Negro problem' in 19th-century America, this work forcefully and convincingly demonstrates that the anti-Chinese sentiment that led up to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is inseparable from the racial double standards applied by mainstream white society toward white and nonwhite groups during the same period. Najia Aarim-Heriot argues that previous studies on American Sinophobia have overemphasised the resentment labour organisations felt toward incoming Chinese workers. This focus has caused crucial elements of the discussion to be overlooked, especially the broader ways in which the growing nation sought to define and unify itself through the exclusion and oppression of non-white peoples. This book highlights striking similarities in the ways the Chinese and African American populations were disenfranchised during the mid-1800s, including nearly identical negative stereotypes, shrill rhetoric, and crippling exclusionary laws. Removing Chinese-American history from the vacuum in which it has been traditionally studied, this book stands as a holistic examination of the causes and effects of American Sinophobia and the racialisation of national immigration policies. Najia Aarim-Heriot is an assistant professor in the Department of History at SUNY College at Fredonia. (For this item please quote stock ID 20038) ISBN: 9780252027758

In what is today Malaysia, the British established George Town on Penang Island in 1786, and encouraged Chinese merchants and labourers to migrate to this vibrant trading port. In the multicultural urban settlement that developed, the Chinese immigrants organised their social life through community temples like the Guangdong-Fujian (Guanyin) Temple and their secret brotherhoods. These community associations assumed exceptional importance precisely because they were a means to establish a social presence for the Chinese immigrants, to organise their social life, and to display their economic prowess. The Confucian 'cult of memory' also took on new meanings in the early 20th century as a form of racial pride. In 20th-century Penang, religious practices and events continued to draw the boundaries of belonging in the idiom of the sacred. Part I of Rites of Belonging focuses on the conjuncture between Chinese and British in colonial Penang. The author closely analyses the 1857 Guanyin Temple Riots and conflicts leading to the suppression of the Chinese sworn brotherhoods. Part II investigates the conjuncture between Chinese and Malays in contemporary Malaysia, and the revitalisation in the 1970s and 1980s of Chinese popular religious culture. (For this item please quote stock ID 21125) ISBN: 9780804744867

The sequel to her 1989 groundbreaking work, A White Man?s Province: British Columbia Politicians & Chinese & Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914, Patricia Roy?s latest book continues her study into why British Columbians - and many Canadians from outside the province - were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. Drawing on contemporary press and government reports, as well as the correspondence and memoirs of individuals, Roy shows how, from 1914 to 1941, British Columbians consolidated a 'white man?s province' by securing a virtual end to Asian immigration and placing stringent legal restrictions on Asian competition in the major industries of lumber and fishing. While its emphasis is on political action and politicians, the book also examines the popular pressure for such practices and gives some attention to the reactions of those most affected: the province?s Chinese and Japanese residents. The Oriental Question is a critical investigation of a troubling period in Canadian history. It will be of vital interest to scholars of British Columbian and Canadian history and politics, Asian studies, diaspora, ethnicity, and immigration. Patricia Roy is a professor in the Department of History, University of Victoria. (For this item please quote stock ID 21146) ISBN: 9780774810111

[Indent] This is the first book in either English or Chinese to study the group of students who came to the U.S. in the early 20th century to attend American universities and played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. (For this item please quote stock ID 21349) ISBN: 9780804736961

[Indent] In The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity. He juxtaposes the cultural positions of different generations of Chinese immigrants and their Canadian-born descendants and unveils the ongoing struggle over the definition of being Chinese. It is an engrossing story about cultural identity in the context of migration and settlement, where the influence of the native land and the appeal of the host city continued to impinge on the consciousness of the ethnic Chinese. This volume is long overdue in view of the many previous studies that tend to describe Chinese people as victims of racial prejudice and discrimination and Chinese identity a matter of Western cultural hegemony. Ng's account gives the Chinese people their own voice and shows that the Chinese in Vancouver had much to say and often disagreed about the meaning of being Chinese. In his concluding chapter, Ng looks beyond the Canadian context by engaging in a comparative discussion of the experiences of ethnic Chinese elsewhere in the diaspora. References to the Chinese in various Southeast Asian countries and the U.S. force a rethinking of 'Chineseness'. He ends with reflections about Vancouver's Chinese community since 1980. Wing Chung Ng teaches in the Department of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. (For this item please quote stock ID 21371) ISBN: 9780774807333

In this remarkable memoir, Tung Pok Chin casts light on the largely hidden experience of those Chinese who immigrated to the U.S. with false documents during the Exclusion era. Although scholars have pieced together their history, first-person accounts are rare and fragmented; many of the so-called 'Paper Sons' lived out their lives in silent fear of discovery. Chin's story speaks for the many Chinese who worked in urban laundries and restaurants, but it also introduces an unusually articulate man's perspective on becoming a Chinese-American. Chin's story begins in the early 1930s, when he followed the example of his father and countless other Chinese who bought documents that falsely identified them as children of Chinese-Americans. Arriving in Boston and later moving to New York City, he worked and lived in laundries. Chin was determined to fit into American life and dedicated himself to learning English. But he also became an active member of key organisations ? a church, the Chinese Hand Laundrymen's Alliance, and Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association ? that anchored him in the community. A self-reflective and expressive man, Chin wrote poetry commenting on life in China and the hardships of being an immigrant in the United States. His work was regularly published in the China Daily News and brought him to the attention of the FBI, then intent on ferreting out communists and illegal immigrants. His vigorous narrative speaks to the day-to-day anxieties of living as a Paper Son as well as the more universal immigrant experiences of raising a family in modest circumstances and bridging cultures. Historian K. Scott Wong introduces Chin's memoir, discussing the limitations on immigration from China and what is known about Exclusion-era Chinese-American communities. Set in historical context, Tung Pok Chin's unique story offers an engaging account of a 20th-century Paper Son. (For this item please quote stock ID 22493) ISBN: 9781566398015

~In the 1990s, societies across the world were confronted with a sudden mass inflow of Chinese migrants. Transnational Chinese investigates the global nature of this migration by focusing on one of the fastest growing groups of new Chinese international migrants: those from Fujian province in southern China. It specifically focuses on Fujianese migration to Europe, where a broad range of immigration regimes has provided various incentives and disincentives that have influenced their migratory patterns across the continent. Applying intensive, multi-sited fieldwork research in the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Italy, as well as sending areas in Fujian, Transnational Chinese investigates the origins and mechanics of Fujianese migration, the work and life of Fujianese migrants in Europe, and the many transnational spaces that connect Fujianese across Europe, the United States, and China. (For this item please quote stock ID 22918) ISBN: 9780804749954

This archetypal story of mother and son unfolds within layers of other stories culled from ancient Chinese folklore. In this novella, Moni Lai Storz has displayed her penchant for taking grand themes from Chinese culture and weaving a tight plot around them with artful simplicity. She tantalises the reader with historical snippets drawn from British Malaya that have shaped the modern Malaysian Chinese psyche. (For this item please quote stock ID 22929) ISBN: 9780732611606

~What happens when Chinese American youths travel to mainland China in search of their ancestral roots, only to realise that in many ways they still feel out of place, or when mainland Chinese realise that the lives of the Chinese abroad may not be as good as they had imagined? By considering programs designed to facilitate interactions between overseas Chinese and their ancestral homelands, Andrea Louie highlights how these programs not only create opportunities for new connections but also reveal the disjunctures that now separate Chinese Americans from China and mainland Chinese from the Chinese abroad.

~Louie focuses on 'In Search of Roots,' a program that takes young Chinese American adults of Cantonese descent to visit their ancestral villages in China's Guangdong province. Through ethnographic interviews and observation, Louie examines the experiences of Chinese Americans both during village visits in China and following their participation in the program, which she herself took part in as an intern and researcher. She presents a vivid portrait of two populations who, though connected through family ties generations back, are meeting for the first time in the context of a rapidly changing contemporary China. Louie situates the participants' and hosts' shifting understandings of China and Chineseness within the context of transnational flows of people, media, goods, and money; China's political and economic policies; and the racial and cultural politics of the United States.

~Andrea Louie is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University.

'Andrea Louie seamlessly guides a discussion of China and Chinese America from the difficult topography of race and nation to the heartfelt search for the understanding of ancestry and home' - Shawn Wong, author of the novel American Knees.

'Andrea Louie's work heralds a new and important phase in the anthropology of trans-nationalism and globalisation. She has produced a very convincing and elegantly nuanced ethnographic exploration of Chinese and Chinese American negotiations of "Chineseness"' ? Martin Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora.

'Andrea Louie provides an engaging ethnography of the dual investment of mainland Chinese and Chinese American youth in defining what it is to be Chinese in diaspora. Louie's attention to the role of the Chinese state in fostering "geneological tourism" helps to break new ground in Asian American and diaspora studies' - Kamala Visweswaran, author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. (For this item please quote stock ID 23063) ISBN: 9780822332633

~Succeeding waves of migration, from China to Thailand and from Thailand to the United States, have helped shape the identities of three generations of diasporic Chinese Thai. In this exciting new study, Bao Jiemin focuses on how cultural identities - as seen through the lens of marriage - play a central role in the formation of cultural citizenship. By challenging models of cultural identity that separate gender, sexuality, and class into discrete domains of analysis, Bao examines the competing roles of sex/gender, class, and race/ethnicity in shaping the ongoing construction of Chinese Thai identities in contemporary Bangkok and the San Francisco Bay area.

~Marriage has long been treated as a mechanism of assimilation in the anthropological literature on diasporic Chinese: the Chinese 'minority' is absorbed into the dominant 'majority' through intermarriage. Bao approaches marriage differently, viewing it not only as an institution that fosters and reproduces fundamental ideas of masculinity and femininity, but also as a site where the various categories of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality - the stuff of identity - intersect. Through a fine-grained analysis of the lives of men and women and the language that three generations use to talk about their experiences in different locales, Bao powerfully demonstrates how masculine and feminine identities are both classed and ethnicized in Thailand and the United States. Nuanced and provocative, Marital Acts shows how diasporic Chinese are both self making and being made, not once, but twice - first in the society in which they are born and second in the society to which they migrate.

~Bao Jiemin is associate professor of anthropology and ethnic studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (For this item please quote stock ID 23291) ISBN: 9780824828790

In the contemporary American imagination, Asian Americans are considered the quintessential immigrant success story, a powerful example of how the culture of immigrant families ? rather than their race or class ? matters in education and upward mobility. Drawing on extensive interviews with second-generation Chinese Americans attending Hunter College, a public commuter institution, and Columbia University, an elite Ivy League school, Vivian Louie challenges the idea that race and class do not matter. Though most Chinese immigrant families see higher education as a necessary safeguard against potential racial discrimination, Louie finds that class differences do indeed shape the students? different paths to college. How do second-generation Chinese Americans view their college plans? And how do they see their incorporation into American life? In addressing these questions, Louie finds that the views and experiences of Chinese Americans have much to do with the opportunities, challenges, and contradictions that all immigrants and their children confront in the United States. Vivian Louie is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. (For this item please quote stock ID 23520) ISBN: 9780804749855

~'Chinese St. Louis provides a much-needed addition to the published literature about Chinese Americans. It skillfully places the Chinese in St. Louis in the context of urban history and the Chinese American historiography. Ling's presentation of the 'cultural community' is important, as it will help to further thinking about Chinese communities that are not in the form of traditional Chinatowns. It is a wonderful study, rich with insight and sophistication' - Franklin Ng, California State University at Fresno

~Chinese St. Louis offers the first empirical study of a Midwestern Chinese American community from its nineteenth-century origins to the present. As in many cities, Chinese newcomers were soon segregated in an enclave; in St. Louis the enclave was called 'Hop Alley'.

~Huping Ling shows how, over time, this community grew and dispersed until it was no longer marked by physical boundaries. She argues that the St. Louis experience departs from the standard models of Chinese settlement in urban areas, which are based on studies of coastal cities. Developing the concept of a cultural community, Ling shows how Chinese Americans in St. Louis have formed and maintained cultural institutions and organisations for social and political purposes throughout the city, which serve as the community's infrastructure. Thus the history of Chinese Americans in St. Louis more closely parallels that of other urban ethnic groups and offers new insight into the range of adaptation and assimilation experience in the United States.

~Huping Ling is Associate Professor of History at Truman State University and the author of Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women & Their Lives. (For this item please quote stock ID 23529) ISBN: 9781592130399

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Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by 13 scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements & Diasporas explores this genuinely transnational Asian American experience - one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean. With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians across the Americas have been shaped by the social dynamics and politics of settlement locations as much as by transnational connections and the economic forces of globalisation. Contributors bring new insights to the unique situations of Asian communities previously overlooked by scholars, such as Vietnamese Canadians and the Lao living in Rhode Island. Other topics include Chinese labourers and merchants in Latin America and the Caribbean, Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, Afro-Amerasians in America, and the politics of second-generation Indian American youth culture. Together the essays provide a valuable comparative portrait of Asians across the Americas. Engaging issues of diaspora, transnational social practice and community building, gender, identity, institutionalised racism, and deterritoriality, this volume presents fresh perspectives on displacement, opening the topic up to a wider, more interdisciplinary terrain of inquiry and teaching. 'Through its combination of critical analysis of the diaspora framework and its presentation of carefully crafted case studies, Displacements and Diasporas breaks new ground both theoretically and substantively' - Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, University of California, Riverside. Wanni Anderson is an adjunct associate professor in the department of anthropology and ethnic studies concentration at Brown University. Robert Lee is an associate professor in the department of American civilisation at Brown University. (For this item please quote stock ID 24520) ISBN: 9780813536118

Family and home are one word - jia - in the Chinese language. Family can be separated and home may be relocated, but jia remains intact. It signifies a system of mutual obligation, lasting responsibility, and cultural values. This strong yet flexible sense of kinship has enabled many Chinese immigrant families to endure long physical separation and accommodate continuities and discontinuities in the process of social mobility. Based on an analysis of over 3000 family letters and other primary sources, including recently released immigration files from the National Archives and Records Administration, Liu Haiming presents a remarkable transnational history of a Chinese family from the late 19th century to the 1970s. For three generations, the family lived between the two worlds. While the immigrant generation worked hard in an herbalist business and asparagus farming, the younger generation crossed back and forth between China and America, pursuing proper education, good careers, and a meaningful life during a difficult period of time for Chinese Americans. When social instability in China and hostile racial environment in America prevented the family from being rooted in either side of the Pacific, transnational family life became a focal point of their social existence. This well-documented and illustrated family history makes it clear that, for many Chinese immigrant families, migration does not mean a break from the past but the beginning of a new life that incorporates and transcends dual national boundaries. It convincingly shows how transnationalism has become a way of life for Chinese American families. 'An important history of Chinese American transnationalism, the book provides valuable insights into lesser known aspects of these immigrant lives, and allows us to understand Asian American history through the well-documented experiences of a family' - Yong Chen, author of Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Transpacific Community. Liu Haiming is an Asian American Studies Professor in the Ethnic and Women's Studies Department of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. (For this item please quote stock ID 24522) ISBN: 9780813535975

Culture, Identity, Commodity is a pioneering work focused on diasporic Chinese literary production in English. It provides broad-ranging, critically-engaged textual analyses that address the dynamic area of diasporic Chinese literary studies from American, Australian, and Canadian perspectives. The innovative research in this collection comes from established and emerging scholars who draw on threads of transnational, postcolonial, globalization, and racialization theories to engage with a broad range of texts including novels, autobiographies, plays and Chinese cooking shows. In so doing, the authors examine issues of cultural and racial identity, the politics of Chinese-ness and the commodification of race/ethnicity, and negotiations of belonging in contemporary Western society. The breadth and depth of the volume's twelve chapters and critical introduction encapsulate vital components of this active research field. The book is a handy reference and critical work for researchers and students and others interested in diasporic Chinese literatures in English, contextualising national conditions and interrogating the thematics of diasporic and transnational experiences. The volume will be of interest to those researching in diasporic Asian studies, Chinese and English literatures, Australian, Canadian or American literary studies, as well as lay readers interested in intercultural creative and cultural issues. 'This collection forms an important foundation for overdue and much-needed comparative work in diasporic Chinese literatures in English' - Sneja Gunew, Professor of English & Women's Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Women's Studies & Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, Canada 'This is a bold and thought-provoking collection with the great merit of questioning orthodoxies. It offers a much-needed discussion of emerging Chinese diasporic writing. It will be an important resource for all those researching and teaching in the fields of comparative literature, ethnic studies, as well as Australian, Canadian and American studies' - David Parker, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Tseen Khoo is a Monash University Research Fellow, Melbourne, Australia. She has published on Asian-Australian cultural production and politics, multicultural/race issues in Australia, and Asian-Canadian literature. She is the author of Banana Bending: Asian-Australian & Asian-Canadian Literatures (2003), and co-editor of Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (2000). Her current research interests include formations of Asian diasporic literary studies, and critically locating narratives of Asian-Australian public history. She created, and currently manages, the Asian-Australian academic discussion list. Kam Louie is Chair Professor of Chinese Studies and Head of the China & Korea Centre at the Australian National University. He has published over ten books and fifty book chapters and articles on Chinese culture. Recent books include Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century (with Bonnie McDougall; 1997), The Politics of Chinese Language & Culture (with Bob Hodge; 1998), and Theorising Chinese Masculinity (2002). He had also co-edited Asian Masculinities (with Morris Low; 2003). He is chief editor of the Asian Studies Review, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Australia-China Council. (For this item please quote stock ID 25005) ISBN: 9789622097605

Diaspora philanthropy is not a new phenomenon. But in an era of accelerated globalisation, the relationship between diaspora philanthropy and the economic and social development of many countries is increasingly relevant. Modern diasporas are diverse and continually shifting; more people are moving more rapidly, more easily, and over greater distances than ever before. This is certainly true of recent migrants from China and India to the United States. In Silicon Valley, Asian Americans are estimated to constitute over 30 percent of the highly paid scientific and engineering workforce and represent one-third of the region's millionaires. As their wealth has grown, so too has their charitable giving?both to their old as well as to their new countries of residence. This volume aims to advance understanding of diaspora philanthropy in the Chinese American and Indian American communities, especially the implications for development of the world's two most populous countries. Lincoln Chen is Director of the Global Equity Initiative at The Asia Center, Harvard University. Peter Geithner is Advisor to the Harvard University Global Equity Initiative and the former Director of Asia Programs at the Ford Foundation. Paula Johnson is a Research Fellow at the Harvard University Global Equity Initiative and a Senior Advisor to The Philanthropic Initiative. (For this item please quote stock ID 25267) ISBN: 9780674018617

Hua Song: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora, is a rich photographic record of the history of overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. Christine Lim shows how the Chinese came to settle in North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Europe, South America, and all parts of the globe. Lim has assembled oral histories, remembrances, testimonials, and hundreds of rare photographs to form a fascinating yet intimate historical tapestry immense in both breadth and scope. These are the stories of a migration of a people, their hopes, fears, aspirations, and dreams for a better life. Christine Suchen Lim is the author of the novel Fistful of Colors. (For this item please quote stock ID 25453) ISBN: 9781592650439

This volume honours, and reflects on, the life and work of the Australian Indonesianist, Charles Coppel. His interests - reflected in this volume - are broad, ranging from history, politics, legal issues, and violence against the Chinese, through to culture and religion. The chapters in the volume, contributed by scholars from Australia, Indonesia, Europe, and Singapore, also all reflect a theme, inspired by Charles Coppel's expression, remembering, distorting, forgetting, by which he drew attention to misrepresentations of the Chinese, seeking to locate the realities behind the myths that form the basis for the racism and xenophobia the Chinese have often experienced in Indonesia. (For this item please quote stock ID 26154) ISBN: 9789812302861

This book is the first Chinese work on the history of overseas Chinese since the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution and the commencement of China's Opening-up to the outside world. It has been a classical reference work for the study of overseas Chinese in many colleges and universities in China. A Century of Chinese Exclusion Abroad is targeted at both overseas Chinese and Western readers - who are unable to read Chinese - so that they have access to a history of discrimination against overseas Chinese and an insight into the mindset of the Chinese nation today. (For this item please quote stock ID 26579) ISBN: 9787119020495

The issue of Chinese diaspora is a fascinating phenomenon in the midst of globalism, and there is a growing interest in studies of overseas Chinese, not only overseas but in China itself. This volume, the result of an international conference on Chinese overseas studies, deals with issues of research and documentation of Chinese migration and migrants. It brings together the efforts of scholars and librarians in examining the research and documentation of Chinese overseas. Documentation must go hand in hand with research, and this book reiterates the need for greater cooperation between librarians and scholars. In addition to discussion on research and library and archival documentation, the book also takes a look at Chinese overseas in different parts of the world, especially Southeast Asia and North America, as well as South Africa and Cuba. About the Authors Tan Chee-Beng is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include cultural change and identity, ethnicity and ethnic relations, religion, Chinese communities, as well as indigenous minorities and development. He has carried out anthropological research in Malaysia and in south China. Colin Storey is Librarian at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His professional interests include strategic management and organizational planning, quality in client services, staff development, freedom of information, and rare books. Julia Zimmerman is Dean of University Libraries at Ohio University. (For this item please quote stock ID 28065) ISBN: 9789629963286

With the recent proliferation of critically acclaimed literature by Asian-American writers, this groundbreaking collection of essays provides a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reading public. The homogeneity implied by the term 'Asian-American' is replaced in this volume with the rich diversity of highly disparate peoples, languages, religions, races and cultural and national backgrounds. Examining a century of Asian-American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of Ping Chong, the contributors address the work of writers with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, East Indian, and Pacific Island ancestry. Asian Canadian and Hawaiian literature are also considered. (For this item please quote stock ID 9728) ISBN: 9780877229360

The story of China over two decades ? its transition from Old Communism to New Capitalism ?intertwined with the love story between former ABC Beijing correspondent Helene Chung, the first female posted abroad by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and her late partner, John Martin, the self-dubbed lazy man at the Australian Embassy in Beijing. His witty, perceptive and self-deprecating letters to family and friends have inspired a book interwoven with 90 colour photographs of China past and present. Comment(s) ?This is a China book you read through in one go ? a very intimate China reportage that is personal and conversational with often unfashionable private judgments ? It is at once a wistful love story ? and a dialogue between Helene and her partner about China.? (Professor Stephen FitzGerald OA, Australia?s First Ambassador to the People?s Republic of China, Chairman, The Asia-Australia Institute, UNSW) (for more information go to http://www.helenechung.com) (For this item please quote stock ID 29361) ISBN: 9781740761284

'This book provides a complex picture of Chinese prostitutes in 19th-Century San Francisco. Benson Tong shows how Chinese prostitutes used their limited power and resources to resist violence and exploitation, to gain some control over their lives, and finally to escape from the vice trade. Anyone interested in women?s history, Asian American history, and the history of the West will benefit from reading this book.' - Journal of the West 'Based on old newspaper and journal articles, Tong?s book partially reconstructs the lives of Chinese prostitutes not only in San Francisco and California, but in Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, and Idaho as well.' - Pacific Historical Review (For this item please quote stock ID 7087) ISBN: 9780806132846

At midnight on June 30, 1997, Hong Kong became part of the People's Republic of China. The transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty from Great Britain to China was an extraordinary historical event, signifying the end of the West's colonial presence in Asia and the rise of China's hegemony. In 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong changed from a barely inhabitable colonial entrepot to one of the world's leading financial and industrial centres. Faced with a new social and economic order under Chinese law, many Hong Kongers moved to a new country; others decided to stay; but many chose to maintain their lives and livelihoods in Hong Kong, while spreading their assets and their family members around the world. They bought apartments in London and condos in Vancouver, invested in firms in Guangzhou and Thailand, and sent their children to schools in Europe and Australia. These new up-market migrants have transformed a cosmopolitan outlook into a global presence. Cosmopolitan Capitalists focuses on the people of Hong Kong and how they are defining themselves under altered circumstances. It is a broad multi-disciplinary view of Hong Kong's transformation, written for a general audience by some of the world's foremost scholars on the region. (For this item please quote stock ID 7705) ISBN: 9780295978031

One hundred and thirty (130) rare photographs offer a fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. The informative text traces history of Chinese in California. (For this item please quote stock ID 13205) ISBN: 9780486245928

In 1982, twenty thousand Chinese-American garment workers - mostly women - went on strike in New York's Chinatown and forced every Chinese garment industry employer in the city to sign a union contract. In this pioneering study, Xiaolan Bao penetrates to the heart of Chinese-American society to explain how this militancy and organised protest, seemingly so at odds with traditional Chinese female behaviour, came about. Bao conducted more than a hundred interviews, primarily with Chinese immigrant women in the Chinatown garment shops and garment-related institutions in the city. Blending these poignant, often dramatic personal stories with a detailed history of the garment industry, Chinese immigrant labour, and the Chinese community in New York, Bao shows how the high rate of married women participating in wage-earning labor outside the home profoundly transformed family culture and with it the image and empowerment of Chinese-American women. Bao offers a complex and subtle discussion of the interplay of ethnic and class factors within the garment industry in New York City. She also documents the uneasy relationship between the ILGWU and rank-and-file women garment workers. Through the words of the women workers themselves, Bao shows how their changing positions within their families and within the workplace galvanized them to unite and stand up for themselves. Passionately told and prodigiously documented, Holding Up More Than Half the Sky is an important contribution to Asian-American history, labour history, and the history of women. Xiaolan Bao, an associate professor of history at California State University at Long Beach, is a contributor to The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right and other books on women's history. (For this item please quote stock ID 18406) ISBN: 9780252026317

This the first major study of Chinese women in Australia, is all about global journeys and perspectives. It is also a story of various stories connecting Australia to the pathways of women of Chinese ancestry. Focusing on the post 1970s, this is a narrative that does not begin or end with Australia. Chinese Women & The Global Village is a rich source of information, ideas and controversies, building on a wide range of sources. Jan Ryan interrogates issues of ethnicity, gender and identitiy to present the diversity and complexity of the personal and working lives of women of Chinese heritage. (For this item please quote stock ID 21868) ISBN: 9780702234217

~Succeeding waves of migration, from China to Thailand and from Thailand to the United States, have helped shape the identities of three generations of diasporic Chinese Thai. In this exciting new study, Bao Jiemin focuses on how cultural identities - as seen through the lens of marriage - play a central role in the formation of cultural citizenship. By challenging models of cultural identity that separate gender, sexuality, and class into discrete domains of analysis, Bao examines the competing roles of sex/gender, class, and race/ethnicity in shaping the ongoing construction of Chinese Thai identities in contemporary Bangkok and the San Francisco Bay area. (For this item please quote stock ID 23292) ISBN: 9780824827403

In the tradition of Amy Tan, Ching Chong China Girl is a hilarious and bittersweet memoir of growing up different in a very eccentric but traditional Chinese-Tasmanian family. Warning: Not to be read by convent girls not wearing their gloves. ?Ching Chong Chinaman!?, girls taunted Helene Chung in her Catholic school playground. An Australian-born Chinese growing up in 1950s Hobart, Helene not only dealt with being different from her blonde-haired, blue-eyed classmates but suffered the shame of having divorced parents. And she kept a shocking secret ? her mother, Miss Henry, was a nude model, who also lived in sin with a foreign devil and drove a red MG. Surviving the embarrassment of childhood, Helene discovered the thrill of the theatre, fell into journalism and travelled the world. She became the first non-white reporter on Australian TV and the first female posted abroad by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Ching Chong China Girl is filled with honesty, humour, love and loss, and gives insight into life that traverses cultures East and West. Helene Chung, a former ABC Beijing correspondent, is an honorary research fellow at Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne, and the author of Shouting from China, Gentle John My Love My Loss and Lazy Man in China. (For this item please quote stock ID 29354) ISBN: 9780733322914

'The autobiography of a Chinese American woman who triumphs over obstacles of discrimination and ignorance is a tribute to any immigrant who has been able to take the best of the old world and the new world, and to use those lessons to succeed. The book's value as an historical document for Chinese Americans is invaluable' - Amerasia Journal 'A fascinating narrative, not only because of the courage and humour which shine through every page of the book, but also because it shows how the members of a typical Chinese family can adapt themselves to American conditions and take their part in the national life of the United States without losing the essentials of the cultural heritage which they rightly prize' - Times Literary Supplement (For this item please quote stock ID 25626) ISBN: 9780295968261

Blood Ties features some of the best new writing from around the Pacific, with a special emphasis on China, writers of the Chinese diaspora, and the influences of Chinese literary tradition on contemporary poetry and fiction worldwide. Authors include leading Chinese novelist Zhang Kangkang, Tibetan author Alai, Nuosu (Yi) poet Aku Wuwu, a selection of writers from Singapore, American poet Arthur Sze, and other outstanding writers and artists. Frank Stewart is the author of five books and the editor of seven others, primarily on Pacific and Asian writers and literature. (For this item please quote stock ID 26130) ISBN: 9780824829544

By the mid-nineteenth century political and editorial cartoons had become an integral part of American newspapers and magazines. Early Chinese immigrants, who played an important role in the development of America's West beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, were depicted in a number of nineteenth century illustrations and cartoons. The Coming Man, borrowing its title from a series illustrating Chinese immigrants published by Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in 1870, includes 116 pictorials that vividly reveal the perception and treatment of Chinese by mainstream white America, selected from American newspapers and magazines dating from 1869 to 1900. The majority were printed in widely circulated national publications such as Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, or regional magazines such as The Wasp (San Francisco) and Puck (New York). Some were drawn by famous artists such as G. Frederick Keller, J. Langstruth, and Thomas Nast. The selection offers the reader an opportunity to turn back the pages of history and experience the hostility and tension during the Chinese exclusion era. It also reveals the racist atmosphere of the nineteenth century, a legacy we have yet to resolve in twentieth-century America. (For this item please quote stock ID 5760) ISBN: 9780295974538

Long 'out of print' but some copies of this classic work are still available at a bargain price! (For this item please quote stock ID 9835) ISBN: 9780824803308

'Entry Denied is essential reading; it greatly enriches our understanding of the life experiences and strategies of those Chinese immigrants who struggled to establish a place and community in an openly hostile and racist society' ? China Review International In 1882, the United States Congress passed a Chinese exclusion law that barred the entry of Chinese laborers for ten years. The Chinese thus became the first people to be restricted from immigrating into the United States on the basis of race. Exclusion was renewed in 1892 and 1902 and finally made permanent in 1904. Only in 1943 did Congress rescind all the Chinese exclusion laws as a gesture of goodwill towards China, an ally of the United States during World War II. Entry Denied is a collection of essays on how the Chinese exclusion laws were implemented and how the Chinese as individuals and as a community in the U.S. mobilised to mitigate the restrictions imposed upon them. It is the first book in English to rely on Chinese language sources to explore the exclusion era in Chinese American history. (For this item please quote stock ID 13011) ISBN: 9781566392013

Lin Yutang (1895-1976), author of more than 35 books, was arguably the most distinguished Chinese American writer of the 20th century. In Chinatown Family, he brings humour and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion as he tells the engrossing and heart-warming story of an immigrant, working-class Chinese American family that settled in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. Tracing their sometimes troubled and sometimes rewarding journey, Lin paints a vivid portrait of the wonder and the woe of settling into a new land. In an era when interracial marriages were frowned upon and it was forbidden for working-class Chinese men to bring their families to America, this story shows how one family struggled to become new Americans by applying their Taoist philosophy to peacefully resist discriminatory laws and the racism that they encountered. Beyond the quest for acceptance and economic success, Chinatown Family also probes deep into the heart of the immigration experience by presenting the perils of assimilation. The burgeoning tension between the desire for material wealth and the traditional Chinese belief in the primary importance of family poses the question: Is it possible to attain the American dream without damaging these primary ties? For each family member, the answer to this question turns out to be different. Through the varied paths that each takes, readers experience the ways that Chinese immigrants have negotiated between the competing interests of economic opportunity and traditional loyalties. (For this item please quote stock ID 27062) ISBN: 9780813539140

God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China's southeastern coast, to New York's Chinatown. Like the Cantonese who comprised the previous wave of migrants, the Fuzhou have brought with them their religious beliefs, practices, and local deities. In recent years these immigrants have established numerous specifically Fuzhounese religious communities, ranging from Buddhist, Daoist, and Chinese popular religion to Protestant and Catholic Christianity. This ethnographic study examines the central role of these religious communities in the immigrant incorporation process in Chinatown's highly stratified ethnic enclave, as well as the transnational networks established between religious communities in New York and China. The author's knowledge of Chinese coupled with his extensive fieldwork in both China and New York enable him to illuminate how these networks transmit religious and social dynamics to the United States, as well as how these new American institutions influence religious and social relations in the religious revival sweeping southeastern China. God in Chinatown is the first study to bring to light religion's significant role in the Fuzhounese immigrants' dramatic transformation of the face of New York's Chinatown. Kenneth J. Guest is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Baruch College, CUNY, and Senior Research Consultant at the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship. (For this item please quote stock ID 22162) ISBN: 9780814731543

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[Indent] This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related legal and labour organisation activities, were highly influential in the process of state formation in Malaya. It shows how Chinese family and business networks were flexible and dynamic, and were closely interlocked with economic and social structures, around which government, and states, developed. It considers the crucial role of wealth and power in the process of state formation, and challenges accepted views of Chinese ethnicity and migration. (For this item please quote stock ID 21746) ISBN: 9780415301763

'Undoubtedly one of the most important studies in the field for many years . . . [Sojourners and Settlers] is likely to set the agenda for research in the field for many years to come and it will certainly be essential reading for anyone interested in the ethnic Chinese of south-east Asia and the Sino-Nanyang relationships.? - Journal of Asian Studies Only recently has the role of Chinese minorities at the forefront of south-east Asia?s rapid economic growth attracted world attention. Yet interactions between Chinese and south-east Asians are longstanding and intense, reaching back a thousand years and making it difficult, if not specious, to attempt to disentangle what is Chinese and what is indigenous in much of Southeast Asian culture. Sojourners and Settlers, now back in print, written by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field, demonstrates the depth of that relationship. Contributors: Leonard Blussé, Mary Somers Heidhues, Jamie C. Mackie, Anthony Reid, Craig Reynolds, Claudine Salmon, G. William Skinner, Wang Gungwu, O. W.Wolters. Anthony Reid is professor and director of the Centerfor Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. (For this item please quote stock ID 12047) ISBN: 9780824824464

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. Careful attention is paid to evolving gender roles, since women constituted the majority of newcomers, significantly changing the sex ratio of the Chinese American population. In defining the political circumstances that brought the Chinese together as a cohesive political body, Zhao delves into the complexities they faced when questioning their personal national allegiances during World War II and the Communist takeover of mainland China. 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. Xiaojian Zhao is an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Praise for Remaking Chinese America 'Xiaojian Zhao?s Remaking Chinese America is an important addition to Chinese American history, focusing on family formation and reconstitution in an as yet little-studied era.' - Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History, University of Cincinnati 'Using records from the Immigration and Naturalization Service as well as Chinatown newspapers, records from and about Chinese American organizations, and oral interviews, Zhao has presented a previously unknown perspective of Chinese America in a skillfully woven mosaic that shaped the experiences of future generations of Chinese Americans.' - Sue Fawn Chung, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (For this item please quote stock ID 2764) ISBN: 9780813530116

Seven years before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 comprehensively disqualified all members of China's labouring class from immigration status, the Page Law sought to stem the tide of Chinese prostitutes entering the United States. Yet during these seven years it was not just prostitutes but all Chinese females who encountered at best hostility and at worst expulsion when they reached the 'Golden Door'. In this first detailed account of Chinese-American women's lives in the pre-exclusion era, George Peffer investigates how administrative agencies and federal courts actually enforced immigration laws. Peffer documents the habeas corpus trials where the wives and daughters of Chinese labourers struggled to prove their status as legal immigrants or be returned to China. He also surveys the virulently anti-Chinese coverage these trials and the issue of Chinese immigration received in the California newspapers, confirming that Chinatown's prostitution industry so dominated the popular imagination as to render other classes of female immigrants invisible. In the words of one immigration judge, the United States remained favorable to Chinese immigration in the preexclusion period 'if they don't bring their women here'. This important study amplifies the voices of immigrant women who did not fit into the preconceived categories American officials created and establishes a place for them within the historiographic framework of Chinese-American studies. (For this item please quote stock ID 11723) ISBN: 9780252067778

This innovative essay collection explores Asian American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. The history of Asian Americans on movie screens, as outlined in Peter Feng?s introduction, provides a context for the individual readings that follow. Asian American cinema is charted in its diversity, ranging across activist, documentary, experimental, and fictional modes, and encompassing a wide range of ethnicities (Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese). Covered in the discussion are filmmakers?Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ang Lee, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Wayne Wang?and films such as The Wedding Banquet, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, and Chan is Missing. Throughout the volume, as Feng explains, the term screening has a twofold meaning ? referring to the projection of Asian Americans as cinematic bodies and the screening out of elements connected with these images. In this doubling, film representation can function to define what is American and what is foreign. Asian American filmmaking is one of the fastest growing areas of independent and studio production. This volume is key to understanding the vitality of this new cinema. Peter Feng teaches English and women?s studies at the University of Delaware. (For this item please quote stock ID 16010) ISBN: 9780813530253

Chinese have travelled the globe for centuries, and today people of Chinese ancestry live all over the world. They are the Huayi or 'Chinese overseas' and can be found not only in the thriving Chinese communities of the United States, Canada, and the Southeast, but also in enclaves as far-reaching as Cuba, Zimbabwe, and Peru. In this book, 22 Chinese living and working outside of China ? ordinary people from all walks of life ? tell us something about their lives and about what it means to be Chinese in non-Chinese societies. In these pages we meet a surgeon raised in Singapore but westernised in London who still believes in the value of Chinese medicine, which 'revitalises you in ways that Western medicine cannot understand.' A member of the Chinese Canadian community who bridles at the insistence that you can?t be Chinese unless you speak a Chinese dialect. Individuals all loyal to their countries of citizenship who continue to observe the customs of their ancestral home to varying degrees, whether performing rites in memory of ancestors, practicing fengshui, or giving out red packets of lucky money for New Year. What emerges from many of these accounts is a selective adherence to Chinese values. One person cites a high regard for elders, for high achievement, and for the sense of togetherness fostered by his culture. Another, the bride in an arranged marriage to a transplanted Chinese man, speaks highly of her relationship: 'It?s the Chinese way to put in the effort and persevere.' Bracketing the testimonies are an overview of the history of emigration from China and an assessment of the extent to which the Chinese overseas retain elements of Chinese culture in their lives. Being Chinese is a highly personal book that bares the aspirations, despairs, and triumphs of real people as it makes an insightful and lasting contribution to Chinese diasporic studies. Wei Djao grew up in Shanghai and taught in Canada, Hong Kong, and California before settling in Seattle to teach at North Seattle Community College. In addition to publishing widely in sociology, she has been involved in the production of television documentaries, including American Nurse, an award-winning program about a Chinese American army nurse in the Vietnam war. (For this item please quote stock ID 21137) ISBN: 9780816523023

'In this history of the children of strangers from a different shore, Gloria Chun offers a felicitously written gift of scholarship - a sensitive study of what it means to be an American of Chinese ancestry' - Ronald Takaki, professor of ethnic studies, University of California, Berkeley 'By deconstructing Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, and other lesser known constructions of orientalized Chinese, and juxtaposing these noxious stereotypes alongside the experiences and voices of a diverse group of authentic Chinese 'nisei', Chun informs her audience of what it means to be Chinese American, then Asian American and beyond. Using a mix of materials from history, literature, and popular culture, she produces an impact that is at once painful and exhilarating, bitter and sweet.' - Evelyn Hu-DeHart, department of ethnic studies, University of Colorado at Boulder 'We were as American as can be,' states Jadin Wong in recalling the days when she used to dance at a San Francisco nightclub during the 1940s. Wong belonged to an all-Chinese chorus line at a time when all East Asians were called 'Orientals.' In this context, then, what did it mean for Wong, an American-born Chinese, to say that she thought of herself as an 'American'? Of Orphans & Warriors explores the social and cultural history of largely urban, American-born Chinese from the 1930s through the 1990s, focusing primarily on those living in California. Chun thus opens a window onto the ways in which these Americans born of Chinese ancestry negotiated their identity over a half century. Past scholarship has portrayed these individuals as desiring to assimilate into mainstream American culture, but being prevented from doing so by the immigrant parent generation. Taking a new approach, Chun uses memoirs, autobiographies, and fictional writings to unravel complex issues of ethnic identity as both culturally defined and individually negotiated. She concludes that, while indeed many Chinese Americans were caught between the lures of mainstream American culture and their parents' old-world values, this liminal position offered them unprecedented opportunities to carve out new identities for themselves from a position of strength. Gloria Heyung Chun teaches history at Bard College. (For this item please quote stock ID 5811) ISBN: 9780813527093

Monterey Park, California, only eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, was dubbed by the media as the 'First Suburban Chinatown'. The city was a predominantly white middle-class bedroom community in the 1970s when large numbers of Chinese immigrants transformed it into a bustling international boomtown. It is now the only city in the United States with a majority Asian-American population. Timothy P. Fong examines the demographic, economic, social, and cultural changes taking place there, and the political reactions to the change. Fong, a former journalist, reports on how pervasive anti-Asian sentiment fueled a series of initiatives intended to strengthen 'community control', including a movement to make English the official language. Recounting the internal strife and the beginnings of recovery, Fong explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organising tools and weapons. (For this item please quote stock ID 7091) ISBN: 9781566392624

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The papers collected in this anthology look at Chinese overseas, residing in five continents in the half century after the Second World War, from many new perspectives. Some papers raise questions about the Chinese diaspora in broad conceptual terms, and inquire into the meaning of being Chinese outside China. Other papers examine life in local communities, analysing how historical and contemporary circumstances affect their lives and the ways they negotiate their identity in the host country. In-depth case studies further bring out the complexity of the subject by identifying the range of variables, including the social, economic, political and cultural characteristics of the places of origin and destinations, as well as emigration and immigration policies, which affect the patterns of migration and the nature of settlement in any place at any time. This is especially highlighted in chapters using a comparative approach. With scholars from different disciplines, using different types of data, methodologies and theoretical tools, the richness of the subject matter becomes apparent. This volume will no doubt go a long way both to broaden and deepen our understanding of the Chinese overseas, and, by showing the many possibilities for further investigation, to strengthen Chinese overseas as a field of study. (For this item please quote stock ID 12726) ISBN: 9789622094468

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Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. For those Chinese travelling between the Old World and the New, San Francisco was a port of entry and departure. Many Chinese settled there, forming one of the oldest continuing ethnic communities in urban America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco, relating the development of various social and cultural institutions, ranging from brothels to the powerful 'Six Companies'. The book recaptures in vivid detail not only the community?s collective mentalities but also the lives of ordinary people ? labourers, theatre-goers, gamblers, and prostitutes. In so doing, the author achieves what has been missing from virtually all the historiographic writing on the Chinese in America ? he brings to life individual personalities with their varying human qualities. The book shows the persistence of Chinese social patterns in San Francisco Chinatown, and demonstrates how the community helped shape white America?s view of Asians in general and the development of race consciousness and strife. The author challenges several long-accepted views, such as the myth that the Chinese exodus to California in the mid-nineteenth century occurred mainly because of impoverishment in South China and the notion that the overwhelming majority of Chinese women in San Francisco were prostitutes. He also makes insightful comparisons of Chinese Americans with other ethnic groups. The book makes imaginative use of a wide range of materials, private and public, fictional and statistical, in both Chinese and English, produced by both pro- and anti-Chinese sources. Among these are Chinese-language newspapers (including their advertisements), handbills, personal diaries, and other cultural productions. The author offers multidisciplinary analyses of such documents, showing the possibilities of extracting rich historical information from texts created for very different purposes. (For this item please quote stock ID 19233) ISBN: 9780804745505

With different histories, cultures, languages, and identities, most Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese origin are lumped together and viewed by other Americans simply as Asian Americans. Since the mid 1960s, however, these different Asian American groups have come together to promote and protect both their individual and their united interests. The first book to examine this particular subject, Asian American Panethnicity is a highly detailed case study of how, and with what success, diverse national-origin groups can come together as a new, enlarged panethnic group. Yen Le Espiritu explores the construction of large-scale affiliations, in which previously unrelated groups submerge their differences and assume a common identity. Making use of extensive interviews and statistical data, she examines how Asian panethnicity protects the rights and interests of all Asian American groups, including those, like the Vietnamese and Cambodians, which are less powerful and prominent than the Chinese and Japanese. By citing specific examples ? educational discrimination, legal redress, anti-Asian violence, the development of Asian American Studies programs, social services, and affirmative action ? the author demonstrates how Asian Americans came to understand that only by cooperating with each other would they succeed in fighting the racism they all faced. (For this item please quote stock ID 26256) ISBN: 9781566390965

Combining archival research in Chinese language sources with oral history interviews, Yu Ranqiu examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organisation that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society. Yu brings to life the men who laboured in New York laundries, depicting their meagre existence, their struggles against discrimination and exploitation, and their dreams of returning to China. The persistent efforts of the CHLA succeeded in changing the workers' status in American society and improving the image of the Chinese among the American public. Yu is especially concerned with the political activities of the CHLA, which was founded in reaction to proposed New York City legislation that would have put the Chinese laundries out of business. When the conservative Chinese social organisation could not help the launderers, they broke with tradition and created their own organisation. Not only did the CHLA defeat the legislative requirements that would have closed them down, but their 'people's diplomacy' won American support for China during its war with Japan. The CHLA staged a campaign in the 1930s and 40s which took as its slogan, 'To Save China, To Save Ourselves'. Focussing on this campaign, Yu also examines the complex relationship between the democratically oriented CHLA and the Chinese American left in the 1930s. (For this item please quote stock ID 26259) ISBN: 9780877229964

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In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1980s, Daniels presents a basic history comprising the political and socioeconomic background of Chinese and Japanese immigration and acculturation. He draws distinctions and points out similarities not only between Chinese and Japanese but between Asian and European immigration experiences, clarifying the integral role of Asians in American history. Daniels' research is impressive and his evidence is solid. In forthright prose, he suggests fresh assessments of the broad patterns of the Asian American experience, illuminating the recurring tensions within our modern multiracial society. His detailed supporting material is woven into a rich historical fabric which also gives personal voice to the tenacious individualism of the immigrant. The book is organised topically and chronologically, beginning with the emigration of each ethnic group and concluding with an epilogue that looks to the future from the perspective of the last two decades of Chinese and Japanese American history. Included in this survey are discussions of the reasons for emigration; the conditions of emigration; the fate of first generation immigrants; the reception of immigrants by the United States government and its people; the growth of immigrant communities; the effects of discriminatory legislation; the impact of World War II and the succeeding Cold War era on Chinese and Japanese Americans; and the history of Asian Americans during the last twenty years. This timely and thought-provoking volume will be of value not only to specialists in Asian American history and culture but to students and general historians of American life. (For this item please quote stock ID 6261) ISBN: 9780295970189

Shirley Fong-Torres can take you through San Francisco's Chinatown like no-one else can. Pausing at each site, she explains the rich and intriguing history and culture behind the scenes. Included is a delectable selection of recipes for some of her favourite meals. (For this item please quote stock ID 7093) ISBN: 9780835124362

A family portrait that is at once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America, and of America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles its immigrants like no other culture in the world. (For this item please quote stock ID 12431) ISBN: 9780099409823

This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subsequent journey each author made to China. The authors - whose diverse backgrounds in countries such as New Zealand, Denmark, Sri Lanka, England, Indonesia, and the United States mirror the complex global scope of the Chinese diaspora -describe in particular how their journey to the country of their ancestors transformed their sense of what it means to be Chinese. The collection as a whole provides important insights into what ethnic identity has come to mean in our transnational era. Among the pieces is Brad Wong's discussion of his visit to his grandfather's poverty-stricken village in China's southern Guangdong province. He describes working with a few of the peasants tilling vegetables and compares life in the village with his middle-class upbringing in a San Francisco suburb. In another essay, Milan Lin-Rodrigo tells of her life in Sri Lanka and of the trip she made to China as an adult. She describes the difficult and sometimes humorous cultural differences she experienced when she met her Chinese half-sister and her father's first wife. Josephine Khu's lively afterword provides background information on the Chinese diaspora and gives a theoretical framework for understanding the issues raised in the essays. This intimate and rich anthology will be compelling reading for all who are seeking answers to the increasingly complex issue of ethnic and personal identity. 'Stellar essays. . . Each of these fine pieces is fluidly written and highly personal. Offering insight into experiences not often studied, they will appeal to academics as well as any reader interested in Asian and ethnic studies.' - Publishers Weekly 'Khu has done a nice job of gathering these stories. . . ' - Library Journal 'A rich, important slice of Chinese diasporic experience.' - John Kuo Wei Tchen, Asian Pacific American Studies Program and Institute, New York University '[These essays] open up a realm of experience in immigration and ethnic history that is not often discussed: the impact of the journey 'home,' even if the person involved had never been to their country of 'origin' before. . . . [Cultural Curiosity] provides some important insights as to what it means to be 'Chinese' in a transnational era.' - K. Scott Wong, Associate Professor of History, Williams College (For this item please quote stock ID 15911) ISBN: 9790520223416

This anthology is the perfect introduction to Asian American studies, as it both defines the field across disciplines and illuminates the centrality of the experience of Americans of South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Filipino ancestry to the study of American culture, history, politics, and society. The reader is organized into two parts: 'The Documented Past' and 'Social Issues & Literature.' Within these broad divisions, the subjects covered include Chinatown stories, nativist reactions, exclusionism, citizenship, immigration, community growth, Asia American ethnicities, racial discourse and the Civil Rights movement, transnationalism, gender, refugees, anti-Asian American violence, legal battles, class polarisation, and many more. Among the contributors are such noted scholars as Gary Okihiro, Michael Omi, Yen Le Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Ronald Takaki; writers such as Sui Sin Far, Bienvenido Santos, Sigrid Nunez, and R. Zamora Linmark, as well as younger, emerging scholars in the field. (For this item please quote stock ID 16614) ISBN: 9780813527260

The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. Despite centuries of prohibition against leaving the land and travelling and settling overseas, the 'earthbound' Chinese - first traders, then peasants and workers - eventually found new sources of livelihood abroad. The practice of sojourning, being always temporarily away from home, was the answer the Chinese overseas found to deal with imperial and orthodox concerns. Today their challenge is to find an alternative to either returning or assimilating by seeking a new kind of autonomy in a world that will come to acknowledge the ideal of multicultural states. In pursuing this story, international scholar Wang Gungwu uncovers some major themes of global history: the coming together of Asian and European civilisations, the ambiguities of ethnicity and diasporic consciousness, and the tension between maintaining one's culture and assimilation. (For this item please quote stock ID 19178) ISBN: 9780674009868

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. 'The book updates the classic works in the field by Roger Daniels, Sucheng Chan, and Shih-shan Henry Ts'ai on Chinese Americans' - Journal of American Ethnic History Benson Tong is a professor of history at Wichita State University and the author of Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. (For this item please quote stock ID 20042) ISBN: 9780870817304

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese labourers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a 'gatekeeping nation'. Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources - including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters - Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations. 'Lee addresses a multiplicity of issues and deftly weaves together several themes that, in the past, had been treated separately' - Sucheng Chan, University of California, Santa Barbara. (For this item please quote stock ID 20043) ISBN: 9780807854488

[Indent] Is Chinatown a ghetto, an area of exotic sensations or a business venture? What makes a European Chinese, Chinese? The histories of Chinese communities in Europe are diverse, spanning (amongst others) Teochiu speaking migrants from French Indochina to France, and Hakka and Cantonese speaking migrants from Hong Kong to Britain. This book explores how such a wide range of people tends to be - indiscriminately - regarded as 'Chinese'. Christiansen explains Chinese communities in Europe in terms of the interaction between the migrants, the European 'host' society and the Chinese 'home' where the migrants claim their origin. He sees these interactions as addressing several issues: citizenship, political culture, labour market exclusion, generational shifts and the influences of colonialism and communism, all of which create opportunities for fashioning a new ethnic identity. Chinatown, Europe examines how many sub-groups among the Chinese in Europe have developed in recent years and discusses many institutions that shape and contribute ethnic meaning to Chinese communities in Europe. Chinese identity is not a mere practical utility or a shallow business emblem. For many, China remains a unifying force and yet local and national bonds in each European state are of equal importance in giving shape to Chinese communities. Based on in-depth interviews with overseas Chinese in many European cities, Chinatown, Europe provides a complex yet enthralling investigation into many Chinese communities in Europe. (For this item please quote stock ID 21745) ISBN: 9780700710720

Min Zhou examines how an ethnic enclave works to direct its members into American society, while at the same time shielding them from it. Focusing specifically on New York's Chinatown, a community established more than a century ago, Zhou offers a thorough and modern treatment of the enclave as a socioeconomic system, distinct form, but intrinsically linked with, the larger society. Zhou's central theme is that Chinatown does not keep immigrant Chinese from assimilating into mainstream society, but instead provides an alternative means of incorporation into society that does not conflict with cultural distinctiveness. Concentrating on the past two decades, Zhou maintains that community networks and social capital are important resources for reaching socioeconomic goals and social positions in the United States; in Chinatown, ethnic employers use family ties and ethnic resources to advance socially. Relying on her family's networks in New York's Chinatown and her fluency in both Cantonese and Mandarin, the author, who was born in the People's Republic of China, makes extensive use of personal interviews to present a rich picture of the daily work life in the community. She demonstrates that for many immigrants, low-paid menial jobs provide by the enclave are expected as a part of the time-honored path to upward social mobility of the family. (For this item please quote stock ID 10860) ISBN: 9781566393379

This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from the county of Taishan, from which, until 1965, a high percentage of the Chinese in the United States originated. The author vividly depicts the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in 'Gold Mountain.' 'An outstanding book, and exemplar of how to do a transnational study that captures the often globe-spanning histories of migrants out of Asia . . . Hsu?s imaginative use of both English and Chinese language sources is impressive . . . Besides being a wonderful archival historian, Hsu also writes well, and she weaves a tapestry of the larger contexts of historical events in both China and the United States by threading in the poignant examples of individual lives.' ? Journal of Asian American Studies 'A work of impressive scholarship ? there is new and important information on almost every page of this book. It will be required reading for Asian Americanists, immigration historians, students of transnationalism and diaspora, and social historians of 20th-century China.' ? Robert G. Lee, Brown University (For this item please quote stock ID 18923) ISBN: 9780804746878

A Dream Of Freedom: The Early Sarawak Chinese is a gripping account of a bid for freedom from colonial shackles by a group of early Chinese settlers in Sarawak. To dream of freedom, and to do what one believes should and needs to be done, remains the dream of all. (For this item please quote stock ID 26261) ISBN: 9789679783773