The cultural clash : Chinese traditional native-place sentiment and the anti-Chinese movement / / Yucheng Qin

• Autore: Qin Yucheng
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.85951013
• Soggetto topico: Chinese Americans - Ethnic identity - History; Chinese Americans - Social conditions; Chinese - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; I: Chinese Native-Place Tradition and Expansion; 1 The Moon Is Rounder in the Native Place; II: Chinese Native-Place Traditions and the Chinese Community in California; 2 Huiguan and Companies; 3 Canton of the West; III: Chinese Native-Place Sentiment/Associations and the Anti-Chinese Agitation; 4 "Cheap Labor" Means "Coolie"; 5 An Imperium in Imperio; 6 Undesirable Members of Society; 7 A Stone in the Stomach of the Body Politic; 8 The Sound Grew into Thunder; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Cultural Clash presents a fresh approach to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Drawing on stunning evidence from newspapers and exciting currents in scholarship, Qin shows that Chinese native-place sentiment was responsible for almost all important features of Chinese community in the nineteenth-century America.
• Titolo autorizzato: The cultural clash
• ISBN: 0-7618-6633-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797819103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II