Chinese American literature since the 1850s
By: Xiao-huang Yin ; foreword by Roger Daniels.
Series: The Asian American experience
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: American literature -- Chinese American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- Chinese influences; Chinese Americans -- Intellectual life; Chinese Americans in literature
Description: "Chinese American Literature since the 1850s traces the origins and development of the extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English and in Chinese, assessing its themes and style and placing it in a broad social and historical context. This volume, shows how change and continuity in the Chinese American experience are reflected in the writings of immigrants from China and their descendants in the United States.".

"A core text for students and scholars of Asian American studies, Chinese American Literature since the 1850s is a resource for literary critics, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in diaspora studies, transnationalism, cultural studies, race and ethnicity, and the immigrant experiences in which Chinese American literature is embedded."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Plea and protest: voices of early Chinese immigrants; title: Writings of the "cultivated Chinese": improving the image to win; title: Sympathy and acceptance; title: The voice of a Eurasian: Sui Sin Far and her writings; title: Seeking a place in American life: autobiographical writings of second-generation Chinese; title: What's in a name: Chinese-language literature in America; title: Immigration blues: themes and subject matter in Chinese-language; title: Literature since the 1960s; title: Multiple voices and the "war of words": Chinese American literature; title: In the contemporary era; title: Epilogue; title: English-Chinese glossary; title: English-Chinese bibliography; title: Selected bibliography; title: Index.