The Chinese in America : a narrative history
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- ISBN: 0670031232
- ISBN: 9780670031238
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xvi, 496 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2003.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The old country: Imperial China in the nineteenth century -- America, a new hope -- "Never Fear, and You Will Be Lucky", journey and arrival in San Francisco -- Gold rushers on Gold Mountain -- Building the transcontinental railroad -- Life on the western frontier -- Spreading across America -- Rumblings of hatred -- Chinese Exclusion Act -- Work and survival in the early twentieth century -- New generation is born -- Chinese America during the Great Depression -- "The Most Important Historical Event of Our Times", World War II -- "A Mass Inquisition", the Cold War, the Chinese Civil War, and McCarthyism -- New arrivals, new lives, the chaotic 1960s -- Taiwanese Americans -- Bamboo curtain rises, Mainlanders and model minorities -- Decade of fear, the 1990s -- High tech vs. low tech -- Uncertain future. |
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Subject: | Chinese Americans History Chinos-americanos Historia Chinese Americans |
Genre: | History. |
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