Interviewing Chinese Refugees
Author | : Jerome Alan Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jerome Alan Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ha Yin Chan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helen Zia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 034552232X |
"The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist Revolution--a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao's proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have opened the story to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves the story of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the U.S. Young Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father's dark wartime legacy, must choose between escaping Hong Kong or navigating the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome young exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation in order to continue his studies in the U.S. while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America"--
Author | : Francis Harper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Simeng Wang |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004461450 |
This research employs the narrative of mental suffering as a prism through which to study Chinese migration in France. It provides new analytical angles and new perspectives on the paradoxical existence and conditions of the migrants, and traces the social links between individuals and societies, objectivity and subjectivity, the real and the imaginary.
Author | : Morag Loh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
19 oral history interviews with Chinese migrants and their descendants; transcripts of selected interviews; photocopies of personal documents and letters; minutes and other documents of the Richmond Chinese school; publications, including primary level Chinese readers and issues of 'The Chinese Christian' published by the Chinese Presbyterian Church (1967-1983).
Author | : Madeline Y. Hsu |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691176213 |
Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century of Chinese migrations, Madeline Hsu looks at how the model minority characteristics of many Asian Americans resulted from US policies that screened for those with the highest credentials in the most employable fields, enhancing American economic competitiveness. The earliest US immigration restrictions targeted Chinese people but exempted students as well as individuals who might extend America's influence in China. Western-educated Chinese such as Madame Chiang Kai-shek became symbols of the US impact on China, even as they patriotically advocated for China's modernization. World War II and the rise of communism transformed Chinese students abroad into refugees, and the Cold War magnified the importance of their talent and training. As a result, Congress legislated piecemeal legal measures to enable Chinese of good standing with professional skills to become citizens. Pressures mounted to reform American discriminatory immigration laws, culminating with the 1965 Immigration Act. Filled with narratives featuring such renowned Chinese immigrants as I. M. Pei, The Good Immigrants examines the shifts in immigration laws and perceptions of cultural traits that enabled Asians to remain in the United States as exemplary, productive Americans.
Author | : Robert Chao Romero |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816508194 |
An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. The Chinese in Mexico provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era. Robert Romero argues that Chinese immigrants turned to Mexico as a new land of economic opportunity after the passage of the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. As a consequence of this legislation, Romero claims, Chinese immigrants journeyed to Mexico in order to gain illicit entry into the United States and in search of employment opportunities within Mexico's developing economy. Romero details the development, after 1882, of the "Chinese transnational commercial orbit," a network encompassing China, Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, shaped and traveled by entrepreneurial Chinese pursuing commercial opportunities in human smuggling, labor contracting, wholesale merchandising, and small-scale trade. Romero's study is based on a wide array of Mexican and U.S. archival sources. It draws from such quantitative and qualitative sources as oral histories, census records, consular reports, INS interviews, and legal documents. Two sources, used for the first time in this kind of study, provide a comprehensive sociological and historical window into the lives of Chinese immigrants in Mexico during these years: the Chinese Exclusion Act case files of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the 1930 Mexican municipal census manuscripts. From these documents, Romero crafts a vividly personal and compelling story of individual lives caught in an extensive network of early transnationalism.
Author | : Lili Song |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108483984 |
Systematic and critical examination of Chinese refugee law and policy including information acquired from interviews and field visits.
Author | : K. Kuah-Pearce |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2008-01-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230591620 |
This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.