The Chinese in America
Subtitle: a history from Gold Mountain to the new millennium
By: edited by Susie Lan Cassel.
Contributors: Cassel, Susie Lan, 1966-
Series: Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers from the Sixth Chinese American Conference, held July 9-11, 1999 and hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of Greater San Diego and Baja California.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Chinese in America: The Politics of Polarity 1; title: Susie Lan Cassel; title: PART I DEFYING STEREOTYPES: THE EARUEST ARRIVALS; title: 1. The Social Origins of Early Chinese Immigrants: A Revisionist Perspective 21; title: Haiming Liu; title: 2. Chinese Placer Mining in the United States: An Example from American Canyon, Nevada 37; title: David Valentine; title: 3. To Inscribe the Self Daily: The Discovery of the Ah Quin Diary 54; title: Susie Lan Cassel; title: PART II DISCRIMINATION AND EXCLUSION ACROSS AMERICA; title: 4. Exploring New Frontiers in Chinese American History: The Anti-Chinese Riot in Milwaukee, 1889 77; title: Victor Jew; title: 5. Riot in Unionville, Nevada: A Turning Point 91; title: Elmer R. Rusco; title: 6. Telling Their Own Stories: Chinese Canadian Biography as a Historical Genre 106; title: Nancy S. Lee; title: PART III LIVELIHOOD IN THE NEW WORLD; title: 7. The Recurrent Image of the Coolie: Representations of Chinese American Labor in American Periodicals, 1900-1924 124; title: Shirley Sui Ling Tam; title: 8. The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Fisheries in California 140; title: Linda Bentz and Robert Schwemmer; title: 9. The Seaweed Gatherers on the Central Coast of California 156; title: Dolores K. Young; title: 10. The Five Eras of Chinese Medicine in California 174; title: William M. Bowen; title: PART IV INFLUENCES: FROM OLD WORLD TO NEW WORLD; title: 11. The Chinese Empire Reform Association (Baohuanghui) and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott: The Power of a Voluntary Association 195; title: Jane Leung Larson; title: 12. Between Two Worlds: The Zhigongtang and Chinese American Funerary Rituals 217; title: Sue Fawn Chung; title: 13. Family and Culture in the Control of the Delinquent Chinese Boy in America 239; title: Sheldon X. Zhang; title: 14. Unbound Feet: A Metaphor for the Transformation of the Chinese Immigrant Female in Chinese American Literature 260; title: Bonnie Khaw-Posthuma; title: 15. Nationalism, Orientalism, and an Unequal Treatise of Ethnography: The Making of The Good Earth 274; title: Zhiwei Xiao; title: PART V ESTABLISHING A CHINESE AMERICAN IDENTITY; title: 16. The "In Search of Roots" Program: Constructing Identity through Family History Research and a Journey to the Ancestral Land 293; title: Albert Cheng and Him Mark Lai; title: 17. Ah Quin: One of San Diego's Founding Fathers 308; title: Murray K. Lee; title: 18. Contesting Identities: Youth Rebellion in San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953-1969 329; title: Chiou-ling Yeh; title: 19. Mothers' "China Narrative": Recollection and Translation in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife 351; title: Yuan Yuan; title: 20. Finding the Right Gesture: Becoming Chinese American in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone 365; title: Vivian Fumiko Chin; title: PART VI CHINESE AMERICA: SETTLED; title: 21. Archaeological Investigations of Life within the Woolen Mills Chinatown, San Jose 381; title: R. Scott Baxter and Rebecca Allen; title: 22. The Chinese Immigrants in Baja California: From the Cotton Fields to the City, 1920-1940 399; title: Catalina Veldzquez Morales; title: 23. The Urban Pattern of Portland, Oregon's First Chinatown 416; title: marie rose wong; title: 24. The Diverse Nature of San Diego's Chinese American Communities 434; title: Ying Zeng.