Chinese Chicago
Subtitle: race, transnational migration, and community since 1870
By: Huping Ling
Series: Asian America; Asian America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780804775588; 9780804775595
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Chinese Americans; History; Social aspects; Transnationalism
Description: Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and new York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. less is known about the vibrant Chinese American community that developed at the same time in Chicago. In this sweeping account, Huping Ling offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese in Chicato, beginning with the arrival of the pioneering Moy brothers in the 1870s and continuing to the present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rethinking Chinese Chicago; title: Searching roots of a transnational community; title: Locating Chinatown, 1870s-1910s; title: Operating transnational businesses, 1880s-1930s; title: Living transnational lives, 1880s-1930s; title: Bridging the two worlds : community organizations, 1870s-1945; title: Connecting the two worlds : Chinese students and intellectuals, 1920s-2010s; title: Diverging and converging transnational communities, 1945-2010s; title: Epilogue : the "hollow center phenomenon" and the future of transnational migration.