03520nam 2200721Ia 450 991080965920332120200520144314.0979-88-9313-352-31-4696-0537-60-8078-9858-9(CKB)1000000000817095(EBL)475191(OCoLC)489151017(SSID)ssj0000335733(PQKBManifestationID)11289953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335733(PQKBWorkID)10278280(PQKB)11087686(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245633(MdBmJHUP)muse23438(Au-PeEL)EBL475191(CaPaEBR)ebr10343530(CaONFJC)MIL930296(MiAaPQ)EBC475191(EXLCZ)99100000000081709520090318d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe children of Chinatown growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 /Wendy Rouse JoraeChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20091 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5973-7 0-8078-3313-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 culturallyChinese AmericansCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistoryChinese American childrenCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistoryChildrenCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistoryChinese American familiesCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistoryChinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)HistoryChinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)Social life and customsChinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)Social conditionsSan Francisco (Calif.)HistorySan Francisco (Calif.)Social life and customsSan Francisco (Calif.)Ethnic relationsChinese AmericansHistory.Chinese American childrenHistory.ChildrenHistory.Chinese American familiesHistory.305.23089/951079461Jorae Wendy Rouse1719241MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809659203321The children of Chinatown4116885UNINA