Dreaming of gold, dreaming of home
Subtitle: transnationalism and migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943
By: Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu.
Series: Asian America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
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; Tʻai-shan hsien (Guangdong Sheng, China) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index.