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Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People

By Jonathan H. X. Lee

Book information

Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-61069-549-7, 1610695496, 978-1-61069-550-3, 83-1952-118-1, 970-203-302-0, 004-230-997-2
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2982826 bytes)
Pages
498\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
Américains d’origine chinoise -- Histoire.;Améri

Description

This in-depth historical analysis highlights the enormous contributions of Chinese Americans to the professions, politics, and popular culture of America, from the 19th century through the present day. • Highlights the distinctive roles that Chinese Americans have added to the fabric of American life • Illustrates the experience of Chinese Americans with discrimination, resistance, and assimilation • Considers the émigrés of the Sinophone diaspora with entries on Cambodian-Chinese and Vietnamese-Chinese Americans • Offers a selection of fascinating primary documents that enrich the reader's experience • Reveals the problems that Chinese American women faced with the passage of the 1882 Exclusion Act

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