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



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Autore: Jorae Wendy Rouse Visualizza persona
Titolo: The children of Chinatown : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / / Wendy Rouse Jorae Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
Disciplina: 305.23089/951079461
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: 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
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
Titolo autorizzato: The children of Chinatown  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-9313-352-3
1-4696-0537-6
0-8078-9858-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809659203321
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