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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809659203321

Autore

Jorae Wendy Rouse

Titolo

The children of Chinatown : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / / Wendy Rouse Jorae

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

979-88-9313-352-3

1-4696-0537-6

0-8078-9858-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

305.23089/951079461

Soggetti

Chinese Americans - California - San Francisco - History

Chinese American children - California - San Francisco - History

Children - California - San Francisco - History

Chinese American families - California - San Francisco - History

Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) History

Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) Social life and customs

Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) Social conditions

San Francisco (Calif.) History

San Francisco (Calif.) Social life and customs

San Francisco (Calif.) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Constructing childhood in early Chinatown : image versus reality -- The immigration of Chinese children and the Chinese question -- Recentering the Chinese family in early Chinese American history -- For the family back home : Chinese children at work -- Challenging segregation : Chinese children at school -- Articles of contention : Chinese children in the missions and courts -- Children of the new Chinatown -- Conclusion: Constructing the future.

Sommario/riassunto

Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of



early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally