The children of Chinatown [[electronic resource] ] : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / / Wendy Rouse Jorae
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Jorae Wendy Rouse
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| Titolo: |
The children of Chinatown [[electronic resource] ] : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / / Wendy Rouse Jorae
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| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0537-6 |
| 0-8078-9858-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455118403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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