The Chinese Americans / Edition 1

by Benson Tong

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870817304
Publisher:	University Press of Colorado
Publication date:	06/28/2003
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

BENSON TONG is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. He is the author of Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (1994) and Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Reformer and Tribal Leader (1999).

Table of Contents

Series Foreword

Preface

Roots of a Diaspora: Chinese Culture and Society in the Late Qing Period

Travelers to Gold Mountain: Immigration, Labor, and Exclusion

Nationalism and Americanization Before World War II

New Ties and New Lives in Cold War America

Socioeconomic Mobility and the Ethnic Economy

Political Mobilization and Empowerment

The Arts and Chinese Americans

Chinese American Families and Identities

Appendix

Selected Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

"The book is extensive in its approach, covering Chinese American influence in art, TV, movies, politics and more."
—Today's Librarian

"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

From the Publisher

Tong (history, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas) provides a general source on the Chinese American experience, from the arrival of Chinese sailors in the 1780s to the present day. This volume chronicles the history of the Chinese diaspora in the United States and the economic, social, and political difficulties they have faced. Along with a survey of Chinese American contributions to art, literature, and film, Tong reflects on the fluid Chinese American identities, through the lens of the "model minority," assimilation, evolving family life, women's roles, and homosexuals. Biographical portraits of many Chinese Americans are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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