Marie Rose Wong

Sweet Cakes, Long Journey

The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon

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Produktbeschreibung

Wong chronicles the history of Portland's Chinatowns from their early beginnings in the 1850s until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1940s, drawing on exhaustive primary material from the National Archives, including more than 6,000 individual immigration files, census manuscripts, letters, and newspaper accounts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 337
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780295983837
• ISBN-10: 0295983833
• Artikelnr.: 21819184

Autorenporträt

Marie Rose Wong

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Nineteenth-Century American City
2. The Chinese Presence in Oregon
3. Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in Oregon
4. Peopling the Chinese Community of Oregon
5. This Place Called Chinatown
Epilogue: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Non-Claves
Appendix: Occupations of Portland's Chinese, 1860-1910
Notes
Bibliography
Index