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Record Nr.

UNINA9911148148103321

Autore

Yoon Won K. <1940->

Titolo

Asian tragedies in the Americas : Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories / / Won K. Yoon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-7936-2854-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

326.20

970

980

Soggetti

Chinese - America - History - 19th century

Japanese - America - History - 19th century

Koreans - America - History - 19th century

History

America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Western Encounters and Encroachments in East Asia -- A Floating Hell in Devil's Throat -- The Coolie Mart and Bitter Sugar in Cuba -- A One-way Passage to a Peruvian Hell -- Paper Children: The Enticement of Gold Mountain -- Koreans in Thorny Henequen Fields in Yucatan -- A Korean Picture Marriage: The Lure of Hawaii -- Peruvian Japanese in U.S. Relocation Camps -- An Empire Never Defeated: The Japanese in Brazil -- Japanese War Brides Following G.I. Husbands

Sommario/riassunto

Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants' experiences. Won K.Yoon examines such phenomena as Chinese paper (fraudulent) wives and daughters, Korean picture marriages, and Japanese war brides, analyzing the impact of racism and colonialism on East Asian groups and family experiences in the West. --