Being Chinese, becoming Chinese American
By: Shehong Chen.
Series: The Asian American experience
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity; Chinese Americans -- Cultural assimilation; Chinese Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Transnationalism; United States -- Relations -- China; China -- Relations -- United States
Description: "In this foundational study, Shehong Chen investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during the crucial period between 1911 and 1927."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: A search for a modern China and challenges to traditional Chinese identity, 1911; title: Defending Chinese republicanism and debating Chineseness in the United States, 1912-14; title: Constructing a Chinese American identity, 1915; title: An ideological foundation of the Chinese American identity, 1916-24; title: Building permanent Chinese American communities and displaying American Chinatown culture, 1920-27; title: Appendix: political events in China, 1898-1924.