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Remaking Chinese America

Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965

By: Xiaojian Zhao

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Remaking Chinese America

Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965

By: Xiaojian Zhao

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 She scrutinizes the repealed exclusion laws and the immigration laws enacted after 1940.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.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813530113

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9780813530116

The New Chinese America

Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy

By: Xiaojian Zhao

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The New Chinese America

Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy

By: Xiaojian Zhao

The 1965 Immigration Act altered the lives and outlook of Chinese Americans in fundamental ways. The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, in order to reveal the emergence of a new social hierarchy after 1965. In this detailed and comprehensive study of contemporary Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for poor and undocumented immigrants and analyzes the process through which social mobility occurs. Through ethnic ties, Chinese Americans have built an economy of their own in which entrepreneurs can maintain a competitive edge given their access to low-cost labor; workers who are shut out of the mainstream job market can find work and make a living; and consumers can enjoy high quality services at a great bargain. While the growth of the ethnic economy enhances ethnic bonds by increasing mutual dependencies among different groups of Chinese Americans, it also determines the limits of possibility for various individuals depending on their socioeconomic and immigration status.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813549124

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Remaking Chinese America

Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965

By: Xiaojian Zhao

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Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965

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The New Chinese America

Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy

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Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy

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Asian American Chronology

Chronologies of the American Mosaic

By: Xiaojian Zhao

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Asian American Chronology

Chronologies of the American Mosaic

By: Xiaojian Zhao

Key moments in Asian American history come alive in this concise and accessible chronology. Understanding the history of Asians in America is key to understanding the development of America itself. Asian American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic presents the most influential events in Asian American history—as well as key moments that have remained under the historical radar. This in-depth record covers events from the 18th century to the present day, including the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Entries, organized chronologically by category, allow readers to trace the development of Asian peoples and culture in the United States over time, including the role of Chinese labor in building railroads, the importation of Filipino slaves, labor strikes and civil rights issues, Japanese-American internment, women's roles, literature, music, politics, and increased immigration in the mid-20th century. In addition to these broad topics, the book also treats individual events from the Rock Springs Massacre to the Gold Rush to the current prevalence of Japanese players in Major League Baseball.

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166

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313348766

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9780313348761

Across the Great Divide

By: Emily Honig,Xiaojian Zhao

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Across the Great Divide

By: Emily Honig,Xiaojian Zhao

This history of China's sent-down youth movement uses archival research to revise popular notions about power dynamics during the Cultural Revolution.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108498736

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Across the Great Divide

By: Emily Honig,Xiaojian Zhao

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By: Emily Honig,Xiaojian Zhao

This history of China's sent-down youth movement uses archival research to revise popular notions about power dynamics during the Cultural Revolution.

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Yellow Perils

China Narratives in the Contemporary World

By: Franck Billé,Sören Urbansky

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Yellow Perils

China Narratives in the Contemporary World

By: Franck Billé,Sören Urbansky

China’s meteoric rise and ever expanding economic and cultural footprint have been accompanied by widespread global disquiet. Whether admiring or alarmist, media discourse and representations of China often tap into the myths and prejudices that emerged through specific historical encounters. These deeply embedded anxieties have shown great resilience, as in recent media treatments of SARS and the H5N1 virus, which echoed past beliefs connecting China and disease. Popular perceptions of Asia, too, continue to be framed by entrenched racial stereotypes: its people are unfathomable, exploitative, cunning, or excessively hardworking. This interdisciplinary collection of original essays offers a broad view of the mechanics that underlie Yellow Peril discourse by looking at its cultural deployment and repercussions worldwide. Building on the richly detailed historical studies already published in the context of the United States and Europe, contributors to Yellow Perils confront the phenomenon in Italy, Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Mongolia, Hong Kong, and China itself. With chapters based on archival material and interviews, the collection supplements and often challenges superficial journalistic accounts and top-down studies by economists and political scientists. Yellow Peril narratives, contributors find, constitute cultural vectors of multiple kinds of anxieties, spanning the cultural, racial, political, and economic. Indeed, the emergence of the term “Yellow Peril” in such disparate contexts cannot be assumed to be singular, to refer to the same fears, or to revolve around the same stereotypes. The discourse, even when used in reference to a single country like China, is therefore inherently fractured and multiple. The term “Yellow Peril” may feel unpalatable and dated today, but the ethnographic, geographic, and historical breadth of this collection—experiences of Chinese migration and diaspora, historical reflections on the discourse of the Yellow Peril in China, and contemporary analyses of the global reverberations of China’s economic rise—offers a unique overview of the ways in which anti-Chinese narratives continue to play out in today’s world. This timely and provocative book will appeal to Chinese and Asian Studies scholars, but will also be highly relevant to historians and anthropologists working on diasporic communities and on ethnic formations both within and beyond Asia. Contributors: Christos Lynteris David Walker Kevin Carrico Magnus Fiskesjö Romain Dittgen Ross Anthony Xiaojian Zhao Yu Qiu

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824876016

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9780824876012

Book's by Xiaojian Zhao

Remaking Chinese America

Remaking Chinese America

The New Chinese America

The New Chinese America

Remaking Chinese America

Remaking Chinese America

The New Chinese America

The New Chinese America

Asian American Chronology

Asian American Chronology

Across the Great Divide

Across the Great Divide

Across the Great Divide

Across the Great Divide

Yellow Perils

Yellow Perils

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