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Dreaming of gold, dreaming of home : transnationalism and migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943
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"This book is a study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Dr...
"This book is a study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and magazines, supplemented by fieldwork and interviews as well as recent scholarship in Chinese social history, the author presents a much richer depiction than we have had heretofore of the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in"Gold Mountain.""--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000
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- xx, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0804738149, 9780804738149
- OCLC
- ocm44700866
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index.
- 1. Introduction: An Elastic Community -- 2. California Dreaming: Migration and Dependency -- 3. Slipping Through the Golden Gate: Immigration Under Chinese Exclusion -- 4. Surviving the Gold Mountain Dream: Taishanese American Families -- 5. Magazines as Marketplaces: A Community in Dispersion -- 6. Heroic Returns: The Railroad Empire of Chen Yixi, 1904-1939 -- 7. Conclusion: Unraveling the Bonds of Native Place
Subjects
- Chinese Americans -- History.
- Chinese -- Migrations -- History.
- Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
- Chinese Americans -- Social conditions.
- Nationalism -- Social aspects -- China -- History.
- Nationalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
- California -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
- China -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
- Taishan Xian (Guangdong Sheng, China) -- Emigration and immigration -- History.