An edition of The Chinese in America (2002)

The Chinese in America

a history from Gold Mountain to the new millennium

The Chinese in America by Chinese American Conference (Sixth 1999 San Diego, Calif.), Chinese American Conference (Sixth 1999 San Diego, Calif.)
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An edition of The Chinese in America (2002)

The Chinese in America

a history from Gold Mountain to the new millennium

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AltaMira Press
Language
English
Pages
463

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Chinese in America: The Politics of Polarity 1
Susie Lan Cassel
PART I DEFYING STEREOTYPES: THE EARUEST ARRIVALS
1. The Social Origins of Early Chinese Immigrants: A Revisionist Perspective 21
Haiming Liu
2. Chinese Placer Mining in the United States: An Example from American Canyon, Nevada 37
David Valentine
3. To Inscribe the Self Daily: The Discovery of the Ah Quin Diary 54
Susie Lan Cassel
PART II DISCRIMINATION AND EXCLUSION ACROSS AMERICA
4. Exploring New Frontiers in Chinese American History: The Anti-Chinese Riot in Milwaukee, 1889 77
Victor Jew
5. Riot in Unionville, Nevada: A Turning Point 91
Elmer R. Rusco
6. Telling Their Own Stories: Chinese Canadian Biography as a Historical Genre 106
Nancy S. Lee
PART III LIVELIHOOD IN THE NEW WORLD
7. The Recurrent Image of the Coolie: Representations of Chinese American Labor in American Periodicals, 1900-1924 124
Shirley Sui Ling Tam
8. The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Fisheries in California 140
Linda Bentz and Robert Schwemmer
9. The Seaweed Gatherers on the Central Coast of California 156
Dolores K. Young
10. The Five Eras of Chinese Medicine in California 174
William M. Bowen
PART IV INFLUENCES: FROM OLD WORLD TO NEW WORLD
11. The Chinese Empire Reform Association (Baohuanghui) and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott: The Power of a Voluntary Association 195
Jane Leung Larson
12. Between Two Worlds: The Zhigongtang and Chinese American Funerary Rituals 217
Sue Fawn Chung
13. Family and Culture in the Control of the Delinquent Chinese Boy in America 239
Sheldon X. Zhang
14. Unbound Feet: A Metaphor for the Transformation of the Chinese Immigrant Female in Chinese American Literature 260
Bonnie Khaw-Posthuma
15. Nationalism, Orientalism, and an Unequal Treatise of Ethnography: The Making of The Good Earth 274
Zhiwei Xiao
PART V ESTABLISHING A CHINESE AMERICAN IDENTITY
16. The "In Search of Roots" Program: Constructing Identity through Family History Research and a Journey to the Ancestral Land 293
Albert Cheng and Him Mark Lai
17. Ah Quin: One of San Diego's Founding Fathers 308
Murray K. Lee
18. Contesting Identities: Youth Rebellion in San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953-1969 329
Chiou-ling Yeh
19. Mothers' "China Narrative": Recollection and Translation in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife 351
Yuan Yuan
20. Finding the Right Gesture: Becoming Chinese American in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone 365
Vivian Fumiko Chin
PART VI CHINESE AMERICA: SETTLED
21. Archaeological Investigations of Life within the Woolen Mills Chinatown, San Jose 381
R. Scott Baxter and Rebecca Allen
22. The Chinese Immigrants in Baja California: From the Cotton Fields to the City, 1920-1940 399
Catalina Veldzquez Morales
23. The Urban Pattern of Portland, Oregon's First Chinatown 416
marie rose wong
24. The Diverse Nature of San Diego's Chinese American Communities 434
Ying Zeng.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers from the Sixth Chinese American Conference, held July 9-11, 1999 and hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of Greater San Diego and Baja California.

Published in
Walnut Creek, CA
Series
Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series
Genre
Congresses.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973/.04951
Library of Congress
E184.C5 C4928 2002, E184.C5C4928 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 463 p. :
Number of pages
463

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3951556M
Internet Archive
chineseinamerica0000chin
ISBN 10
0759100004, 0759100012
LCCN
2001045990
OCLC/WorldCat
48014888
Goodreads
2632733
2421848

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL6213937W

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