ISBN:
0520972554
,
9780520972551
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Brooks, Charlotte, 1971- American exodus
DDC:
305.895/1073
Keywords:
Chinese Americans Ethnic identity
;
Chinese Americans 20th century
;
Chinese Americans
;
Chinese Americans ; Ethnic identity
;
China
Abstract:
In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to China--a relocation they assumed would be permanent. At a time when people from around the world flocked to the United States, this little-noticed emigration belied America's image as a magnet for immigrants and a land of upward mobility for all. Fleeing racism, Chinese Americans who sought greater opportunities saw China, a tottering empire and then a struggling republic, as their promised land. American Exodus is the first book to explore this extraordinary migration of Chinese
Abstract:
New lives in the south : Chinese American merchant and student immigrants -- The modernizers : US-educated Chinese Americans in China -- The golden age ends : Chinese Americans and the rise of anti-imperialist nationalism -- The Nanjing decade : Chinese American immigrants and the nationalist regime -- Agonizing choices : the war against Japan, 1937-1945.
Note:
"In the early twentieth century, between one-third and one-half of all native-born Chinese American citizens left the United States for China under the assumption that they would never permanently return to the land of their birth. American Exodus explores this little-known aspect of modern Chinese and American history through the lives of the thousands of Chinese Americans who settled in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and the Pearl River Delta"--Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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