ISBN:
9781610695503
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Chinese Americans
DDC:
973/.04951
Keywords:
Chinese Americans Biography
;
Chinese Americans Social conditions
;
Chinese Americans History
;
Chinese Americans - History
;
Chinese Americans - History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology of Chinese American History -- Part I: Context of Chinese American Emigration: Coming to America -- Historical Overview -- Alien Land Law (1913) -- American Federation of Labor -- Angel Island Immigration Station -- Angell Treaty (Chinese Exclusion Treaty) (1880) -- Anti-Chinese Violence -- Anti-Miscegenation Laws -- Bachelor Society -- Bemis, Polly (1853-1933) -- Bing Kung Tong -- Bowl of Rice Movement -- Boxer Indemnity Fellowship (Boxer Rebellion) (1900) -- Burlingame Treaty (1868) -- Cantonese -- Chee Kung Tong -- Chin, Vincent Jen (1955-1982) -- China War Relief Association -- Chinese American Birth Rates -- Chinese American Population Trends -- Chinese and Cuba's Ten Years' War (1868-1878) -- Chinese Cambodians -- Chinese Canadian History -- Early Migration in the 19th Century -- Head Tax -- Immigration in the 20th Century -- Immigration in the 21st Century -- Apology and Recognition -- Chinese Canadians' Participation in Politics -- Cultural, Social, and Religious Life -- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) -- Chinese Immigration During the Gold Rush -- Chinese Immigration to Canada -- Chinese Immigration to Mexico -- Chinese Immigration to South America -- Chinese in Cuba -- Chinese in Hawai'i -- Chinese in Peru -- Chinese in the Mississippi Delta -- Chinese in the U.S. Civil War -- Chinese Vietnamese -- Chinese Women and the Chinese Exclusion Act -- Cuba Commission Report, The -- Dollar Diplomacy in China -- Hip Sing Tong (Xiesheng Tang) -- Hong Kong -- Hongmen -- Hop Sing Tong (Hesheng Tang) -- Huiguan (The Chinese Six Companies) -- International Context of Chinese Immigration to America, to 1870 -- Locke, California -- Opium Wars (1840 and 1856) -- Page Law (1875) -- Paper Sons and Daughters -- Queue Ordinance (1876) -- Rape of Nanjing -- Refugee-Escapee Act (1957)
Abstract:
Refugee Relief Act (1953) -- Samyap and Szeyap -- San Francisco Earthquake (1906) -- Scott Act (1888) -- Sino-Japanese War (1894) -- Sino-U.S. Relations -- Taiping Rebellion -- Taiwan -- Taiwanese Immigration History -- Treaty of Nanking (1842) -- Triads -- War Brides Act (1945) -- War Brides Act (1946) -- World War I -- Imperial Designs on China -- The Great War Spills Over -- Chinese Americans in the Service of Their Country -- World War II -- Before Pearl Harbor -- Chinese Americans Go to War -- Telling Your Enemy from Your Friend -- Postwar Paths to Citizenship -- World War II in the Pacific -- Yung Wing (1828-1912) -- Part II: Political Activity and Economic Life: Business Endeavors and Involvement in American Politics -- Historical Overview -- Boggs, Grace Lee (1915-2015) -- Beyond Rebellion, Toward a New Concept of Citizenship -- Central Pacific Railroad -- Chennault, Anna (1925-) -- Chiang Kai-shek, Madame (Soong Meiling) (1898-2003) -- Chinatown Gangs in the United States -- Chinese American Activism -- Chinese American Citizens Alliance -- Chinese Americans and Civil Rights -- 1860s-1880s -- 1890s-1920s -- 1940s-1970s -- Post-1990s -- Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association -- Chinese Family Associations -- Chinese Fisheries in California -- Fisheries in San Francisco -- Fisheries in Monterey -- Fisheries of San Diego -- Decline of the Chinese Fisheries -- Chinese Grocery Stores -- Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance -- Chinese Hospital, San Francisco -- Chinese-Language Newspapers in America -- Chinese-Language Newspapers in the Early Years -- The Chinese-Language Newspapers in the Early 20th Century -- Chinese-Language Newspapers Today -- Chinese Laundries -- Chinese Restaurants in the United States -- Chu, Judy (1953-) -- Contract Laborers (Credit-Ticket Laborers) -- Golden Ambitions, Bitter Realities -- Sinophobia -- Coolie Trade
Abstract:
Contracts -- Organization/Structure -- Shipping and Mortality -- Life in the Colonies -- Abolition of the Trade -- Eu, March Fong (1922-) -- Flying Tigers -- Flying with Distinction -- Citizenship Through Covert Action? -- Fong, Hiram Leong (1906-2004) -- Gold Rush -- Gong Lum v. Rice (1927) -- Guey Heung Lee v. Johnson (1971) -- Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan (1879) -- Lau v. Nichols (1974) -- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -- Lee, Wen-Ho (1939-) -- Locke, Gary Faye (1950-) -- Low, Evan (1983-) -- McCarthyism -- People v. Hall (1854) -- Secret Societies -- Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) -- Taiwanese Americans -- Transcontinental Railroad -- After the Railroad -- United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) -- Wu Tingfang (1842-1922) -- Part III: Cultural and Religious Life: People, Institutions, and Organizations -- Historical Overview -- Bok Kai and Bok Kai Temple -- Marysville's Chinatown and the Temple Architecture -- The Early Priest and Activities of the Temple -- Structural Problems -- Other Daoist Temples -- Chinatown Ghost Stories -- Chinese Christians in America -- Chinese Foods -- Chinese Genealogy -- Evolution of Chinese Genealogy -- Searching for Your Chinese Ancestral Roots -- Chinese Immigrant Cemeteries -- Chinese-Language Schools -- Chinese Medicine -- History of Chinese Medicine in the United States -- Education and Knowledge Transmission -- Basic Understanding of the Human Body -- Chinese Operas -- Chinese Temples in America -- Ching Chung Taoist Association of America -- The Lee Family -- Beliefs and Practices -- Confucianism -- Confucius: The Master -- Confucianism in North America -- Daoism -- Chinese Immigrant Daoism -- Popular American Daoism -- Masters and Institutions -- Dying and Death Rituals -- Falun Dafa/Falun Gong -- Falun Gong Fundamentals: Teachings -- Falun Gong Fundamentals: Practices -- Fengshui/Geomancy
Abstract:
First Chinese Baptist Church, San Francisco -- Guanyin -- Avalokiteśvara Becomes Guanyin -- Guanyin in America -- Guanyin in the Lives of Asian Americans -- Hong Fook Tong -- Lunar New Year -- Narcissus Festival and Queen Pageant (Honolulu) -- Religions -- Chinese American Protestant Christianity -- Chinese American Buddhism -- Chinese American Catholicism -- Chinese American Nonreligious -- Chinese Popular Religions -- Chinese American Confucianism -- Taiwanese American Heritage Week -- Taiwanese American Religions -- Taiwanese Food in America -- Tianhou-Empress of Heaven -- Tzu Chi Foundation USA -- Watchman Nee (1903-1972) and Witness Lee (1905-1997) -- Yee, James J. (CA. 1968-) -- Part IV: Literature, the Arts, Popular Culture, and Sports: People, Movements, and Expressions of Identity -- Historical Overview -- Adrian, Nathan Ghar Jun (1988-) -- Au-Yeung, Jin (1982-) -- Chang, Apana (1871-1933) -- Chang, Michael Te-Pei (1972-) -- Chin, Frank Jianxiu (1940-) -- Chinese American Baseball -- Chinese American Hip-Hop -- Chinese American Jazz -- Chinese American Literature -- Early Pleas for Tolerance -- Angel Island Poetry -- Early Chinese American Literature -- Rebellion -- Wider Recognition and Acceptance -- Chinese Americans and LGBTQQI -- Chinese Americans in Motion Pictures -- Chinese Americans in Sports -- Chinese Martial Arts -- Chinese Nightclubs (1920s-1940s) -- Chow, Norm Yew Heen (1946-) -- Dong, Arthur (1953-) -- Eaton, Edith Maude (Sui Sin Far)(1865-1914) -- Fa Mu Lan -- Folklore in Children's Literature -- Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan -- Ho, Fred Wei-Han (1957-2014) -- Huang, Eddie (1982-) -- Hwang, David Henry (1957-) -- Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940-) -- Kwan, Michelle Wing Shan (1980-) -- Lam, Wifredo (1902-1982) -- Lee, Ang (1954-) -- Lee, Bruce (1940-1973) -- Lee, C. Y. (1917-), and Flower Drum Song -- Lin, Jeremy (1988-)
Abstract:
Liu, Lucy (1968-) -- Ma, Yo-Yo (1955-) -- Miss Chinatown USA Pageant -- Model Minority -- Contemporary Forms and Impact -- Ng Poon Chew (1867-1931) -- Ngor, Haing S. (1940-1996) -- Pei, I. M. (Ieoh Ming) (1917-) -- Tam, Vivienne (1957-) -- Tan, Amy (1952-) -- Wang, Anna May (1905-1961) -- Wang, Vera (1949-) -- Wang, Wayne (1949-) -- Wong Chin Foo (1847-1898) -- Wong, Jade Snow (1922-2006) -- Wong, Shawn (1949-) -- Wu, Daniel (1974-) -- Yang, Gene Luen (1973-) -- Yep, Laurence Michael (1948-) -- Yew, Chay (1965-) -- Primary Documents -- Document 1: 1854 The People, Respondent, V. George W. Hall, Appellant. -- Document 2: Page Law -- Forty-Third Congress. Session II. Ch.141.March 3, 1975 Chapter 141. -- Document 3: "Appeal From California. The Chinese Iivasion. Workingmen's Address." -- Document 4: Ho Ah Kow V. Nunan (1879) -- Ho Ah Kow V. Nunan. -- Document 5: Chinese Exclusion Act (May 6, 1882) -- An Act to Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to Chinese -- Document 6: Excerpt From "The Chinese Must Stay" By Yan Phou Lee -- Document 7: United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) -- Syllabus -- Document 8: Webb-Haney Act (Alien Land Law), California, 1913 -- Document 9: Governor Gary Locke's Inaugural Address, 1997 -- Document 10: Congresswoman Judy Chu and H. Res. 683 -- Section 1. Acknowledgement. -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- About the Editor -- Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I. Context of Chinese American emigration: coming to AmericaPart II. Political activity and economic life: business endeavors -- Part III. Cultural and religious life: people, institutions, organizations -- Part IV. Literature, the arts, popular culture, and sports: people and expressions of identity.
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