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Coming home in gold brocade : Chinese in early Northwest America = 衣锦梦还乡情 : 金山西北角早期华人社会
Coming home in gold brocade : Chinese in early Northwest America = Yi jin meng hai xiang qing : Jinshan xi bei jiao zao qi Hua ren she hui
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- Creator
- Bennet Bronson, Chuimei Ho
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Seattle, Washington : Chinese in Northwest America Research Committee, [2015]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781505228021, 1505228026
- OCLC
- ocn908351550
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-275) and index.
- In English; Summary in Chinese.
- Chapter 1. Through Chinese eyes -- Introduction: why they came -- The view from the villages -- Perceived benefits -- Official attitudes -- North American Chinese view themselves -- Chapter 2. Patterns in time, space, & population -- Introduction : six phases -- Before 1850 : early adventures -- 1850s-1870 : miners and merchants in the first Northwestern Chinatowns -- 1870-1885 : a demographic and economic peak -- 1885-1887 : hostility, chaos, and flight -- 1888-1900 : Chinese concentrate in cities -- After 1900 : future trends -- Chapter 3. Economic life -- Introduction : employment in the early Northwest -- Merchants and contractors -- Cannery workers -- Railroad workers -- Chinese in lumber mills -- Gold and coal miners -- The Canadian opium industry -- Chinese in the restaurant trade -- Laundrymen -- Chinese in domestic service -- Fishermen -- Farmers and gardeners -- Commercial services and factory work -- Chapter 4. Community structure -- Introduction : associations and records -- Tongs -- County/district associations -- Chinese consolidated benevolent associations -- Clan or surname associations -- Temples in Northwest America -- Non-traditional organizations -- Christian churches and mission schools -- Chapter 5. Private lives in the Northwest -- Introduction : picturing individuals in the past -- Chinese men in the Northwest -- Chinese women in the Northwest -- Marriage and intermarriage -- Civil and property rights -- Diet and health -- Opium use -- Illness and death -- Funerals, burials, memorials, and repatriation