Xiaojian Zhao

The New Chinese America

Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The New Chinese America" explores the Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for poor and undocumented immigrants and analyzes the process through which social mobility occurs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546926
• ISBN-10: 0813546923
• Artikelnr.: 26526483

Autorenporträt

Xiaojian Zhao is an associate professor in the department of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Remaking ChineseAmerica: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940û1965 (Rutgers University Press), winner of the History Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 
Note on Translation 
Introduction: Rethinking Chinese America 
1. Contemporary Chinese American Population: The Documented and the
Invisible
2. Drawing Lines of Class Distinction
3. "Serve the People": The Ethnic Economy
4. The "Spirit of Changle": Constructing a Regional Identity
5. Surviving Poverty in an Ethnic Social Hierarchy Conclusion: Inclusion or
Exclusion!
Notes
Selected Bibliography 
Index