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Author | : Allen Gee |
Publisher | : Santa Fe Writer's Project |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1939650313 |
Download My Chinese-America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Eloquently written essays about aspects of Asian American life comprise this collection that looks at how Asian-Americans view themselves in light of America's insensitivities, stereotypes, and expectations. My Chinese-America speaks on masculinity, identity, and topics ranging from Jeremy Lin and immigration to profiling and Asian silences. This essays have an intimacy that transcends cultural boundaries, and casts light on a vital part of American culture that surrounds and influences all of us.
Author | : Xiaojian Zhao |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813530116 |
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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. She scrutinizes the repealed exclusion laws and the immigration laws enacted after 1940. Careful attention is also paid to evolving gender roles, since women constituted the majority of newcomers, significantly changing the sex ratio of the Chinese American population. As members of a minority sharing a common cultural heritage as well as pressures from the larger society, Chinese Americans networked and struggled to gain equal rights during the cold war period. In defining the political circumstances that brought the Chinese together as a cohesive political body, Zhao also delves into the complexities they faced when questioning their personal national allegiances. 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.
Author | : Kelley Hunsicker |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Chinese Americans |
ISBN | : 1429613556 |
Download Chinese Immigrants in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It's 1850, and you are fleeing war and starvation in your homeland of China. You sell everything you have to go to a place in America called Gold Mountain, better known as California. Do you try to strike it rich in the gold mines of California? or ..., Will you seek your fortune in San Francisco's Chinatown? or ..., Will you work as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad?
Author | : Iris Chang |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2004-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101126876 |
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A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws and anti-Asian violence, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.
Author | : Min Zhou |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1592138594 |
Download Contemporary Chinese America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experience.
Author | : Gene Luen Yang |
Publisher | : First Second |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2006-09-06 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466805463 |
Download American Born Chinese Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections
Author | : Charlotte Harris Rees |
Publisher | : Light Messages Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2014-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611530814 |
Download Did Ancient Chinese Explore America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Chinese classic, the Shan Hai Jing, reportedly from 2000 BC claimed travels to the ends of the earth. However, today many, while accepting the antiquity of this account, believe it was just mythology. But was it?Testing the hypothesis that the Shan Hai Jing described actual surveys of North America, Charlotte Harris Rees, author of books about early Chinese exploration, followed an alleged 1100 mile Chinese trek along the eastern slope of the US Rocky Mountains. The Chinese account should have been easy to disprove. In the travelogue Did Ancient Chinese Explore America? Rees candidly shares her initial doubts then her search and discoveries. She weaves together history, subtle humor, academic studies, and many photographs to tell a compelling story.
Author | : Helen Zia |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2001-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780374527365 |
Download Asian American Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
" ... about the transformation of Asian Americans ... into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society."--Jacket.
Author | : Kay Melchisedech Olson |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780736832892 |
Download Chinese Immigrants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discusses the reasons Chinese people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes activities.
Author | : Wendy Liu |
Publisher | : Homa & Sekey Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1931907528 |
Download Everything I Understand about America I Learned in Chinese Proverbs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Everything I Understand about America I Learned in Chinese Proverbs, Wendy Liu tells her experiences and views of America¿its life, issues, politics, and China relations¿with a Chinese angle. Following a dispute over free speech, for instance, she recalled the Chinese proverb ¿A great person¿s heart is big enough to pole a boat in¿ and realized that a big heart was what everyone needed to tolerate differences in America. Observing controversies between the U.S. and China, she felt that with America¿s complex relationship with the Middle Kingdom, it would be helpful if Americans were not sometimes ¿seeing trees only, but not the forest,¿ another Chinese proverb.