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Bezig met laden... Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 (Asian America)door Huping Ling
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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 Chicago, beginning with the arrival of the pioneering Moy brothers in the 1870s and continuing to the present. Ling focuses on how race, transnational migration, and community have defined Chinese in Chicago. Drawing upon archival documents in English and Chinese, she charts how Chinese made a place for themselves among the multiethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, cultivating friendships with local authorities and consciously avoiding racial conflicts. Ling takes readers through the decades, exploring evolving family structures and relationships, the development of community organizations, and the operation of transnational businesses. She pays particular attention to the influential role of Chinese in Chicago's academic and intellectual communities and to the complex and conflicting relationships among today's more dispersed Chinese Americans in Chicago. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)305.8951Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism Other Groups Asian Origin Chinese diasporaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Occasionally the author over-broadly generalizes, particularly regarding China's political history. Sometimes the author will make a generalization also that she contradicts within her own text -- for example in chapter 5 in discussing the power of merchant immigrants, she states that "secure in their wealth and power , the Chinese gentry-scholars had little incentive to emigrate." In that case, when three paragraphs on she says that "the Hip Sing Tong was established in the 1870s by a scholar who had lost his business." After the first statement quoted above, the second begs for explication.
All in all, a good read.
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