Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America During the Exclusion Era (Asian American History & Cultu)

✍ Scribed by Sucheng Chan

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Chinese American Transnationalism considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant interchange of people and economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. This book continues the exploration of the exclusion era begun in two previous volumes: Entry Denied, which examines the strategies that Chinese Americans used to protest, undermine, and circumvent the exclusion laws; and Claiming America, which traces the development of Chinese American ethnic identities. Taken together, the three volumes underscore the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed over the sixty-one year period.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 9
1.
Defying Exclusion: Chinese Immigrants and TheirStrategies During the Exclusion Era......Page 19
2. Trading with Gold Mountain: Jinshanzhuang andNetworks of Kinship and Native Place......Page 40
3. Against All Odds: Chinese Female Migration and Family Formation on American Soil During the EarlyTwentieth Century......Page 52
4. Chinese Herbalists in the United States......Page 154
5. Understanding Chinese American TransnationalismDuring the Early Twentieth Century: An EconomicPerspective......Page 174
6. Republicanism, Confucianism, Christianity, and
Capitalism in American Chinese Ideology......Page 192
7. Teaching Chinese Americans to be Chinese:Curriculum, Teachers, and Textbooks in ChineseSchools in America During the Exclusion Era......Page 212
8. Writing a Place in American Life: The Sensibilities ofAmerican-born Chinese as Reflected in Life Storiesfrom the Exclusion Era......Page 229
Notes......Page 255
About the Contributors......Page 293
Index......Page 295