02474oam 22005291 450 991114814810332120260415125942.01-7936-2854-8(OCoLC)1235596683(CKB)4100000011738704(MiAaPQ)EBC6461544(ODN)ODN0006045268(EXLCZ)99410000001173870420210316h20212021 uy 0engurcn#|||a|a||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAsian tragedies in the Americas Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories /Won K. YoonLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,[2021]©20211 online resource (273 pages) illustrations, maps1-7936-2855-6 1-7936-2853-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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. HusbandsAsian 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. --Provided by publisher.ChineseAmericaHistory19th centuryJapaneseAmericaHistory19th centuryKoreansAmericaHistory19th centuryAmericafastHistory.fastChineseHistoryJapaneseHistoryKoreansHistory326.20970980Yoon Won K.1940-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQCaOWtUBOOK9911148148103321UNINA