Iris Chang

The Chinese in America

A Narrative History

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Produktbeschreibung

In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people's search for a better life-the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws, walking the racial tightrope between black and white, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 136mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780142004173
• ISBN-10: 0142004170
• Artikelnr.: 21735990

Autorenporträt

Iris Chang (1968-2004) lived and worked in California. She was a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana and worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminar program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm  (the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program) received worldwide critical acclaim. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Rape of Nanking. She was the recipient of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation award, as well as major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Harry Truman Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction   vii
1. The Old Country: Imperial China in the Nineteenth Century   1
2. America: A New Hope   20
3. "Never Fear, and You Will Be Lucky": Journey and Arrival in San
Francisco   29
4. Gold Rushers on Gold Mountain   38
5. Building the Transcontinental Railroad   53
6. Life on the Western Frontier   65
7. Spreading Across America   93
8. Rumblings of Hatred   116
9. The Chinese Exclusion Act   130
10. Work and Survival in the Twentieth Century   157
11. A New Generation is Born   173
12. Chinese America During the Great Depression   199
13. "The Most Important Historical Event of Our Times": World War II  
215
14. "A Mass Inquisition": The Cold War, the Chinese Civil War, and
McCarthyism   236
15. New Arrivals, New Lives: The Chaotic 1960s   261
16. The Taiwanese Americans   283
17. The Bamboo Curtain Rises: Mainlanders and Model Minorities   312
18. Decade of Fear: The 1990s   334
19. High Tech vs. Low Tech   348
20. A Uncertain Future   389  
Notes   405
Acknowledgements   477
Index   481