Chinese Chicago : Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870.

By: Ling, HupingMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Asian America SerPublisher: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (338 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804783361Subject(s): Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875- | Chinese Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century | Chinese Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | TransnationalismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chinese Chicago : Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870DDC classification: 305.8951073077311 LOC classification: F548Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation and Terminology -- Introduction: Rethinking Chinese Chicago -- 1. Searching for Roots of a Transnational Community -- 2. Locating Chinatown,1870s-1910s -- 3. Operating Transnational Businesses, 1880s-1930s -- 4. Living Transnational Lives, 1880s-1930s -- 5. Bridging the Two Worlds: Community Organizations, 1870s-1945 -- 6. Connecting the Two Worlds: Chinese Students and Intellectuals, 1920s-2010s -- 7. Diverging and Converging Transnational Communities, 1945-2010s -- Epilogue: The "Hollow Center Phenomenon" and the Future of Transnational Migration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The first comprehensive, comparative and interpretive history of a highly important historical settlement of Chinese / Chinese Americans in the U.S., Chinese Chicago focuses on three crucial issues that define the Chinese in Chicago: race, transnational migration, and community, and investigates significant historical developments from the arrival of the three Moy brothers in the 1870s to the present "tripartite" communities.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation and Terminology -- Introduction: Rethinking Chinese Chicago -- 1. Searching for Roots of a Transnational Community -- 2. Locating Chinatown,1870s-1910s -- 3. Operating Transnational Businesses, 1880s-1930s -- 4. Living Transnational Lives, 1880s-1930s -- 5. Bridging the Two Worlds: Community Organizations, 1870s-1945 -- 6. Connecting the Two Worlds: Chinese Students and Intellectuals, 1920s-2010s -- 7. Diverging and Converging Transnational Communities, 1945-2010s -- Epilogue: The "Hollow Center Phenomenon" and the Future of Transnational Migration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The first comprehensive, comparative and interpretive history of a highly important historical settlement of Chinese / Chinese Americans in the U.S., Chinese Chicago focuses on three crucial issues that define the Chinese in Chicago: race, transnational migration, and community, and investigates significant historical developments from the arrival of the three Moy brothers in the 1870s to the present "tripartite" communities.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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