ISBN:
9780226193564
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (338 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Between Mao and McCarthy : Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
DDC:
305.895107309
Keywords:
Chinese Americans - Social conditions - History - 20th century
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Chinese Americans - Social conditions - History - 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco and New York.Between Mao and McCarthy looks at the divergent ways that Chinese Americans in these two cities balanced domestic and international pressures during the tense Cold War era. On both coasts, Chinese Americans sought to gain political power and defend their civil rights, yet only the San Franciscans succeeded. Forging multiracial coalitio
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Names and Translations; Introduction; One / New York and San Francisco: Politics in the Political Capitals of Chinese America; Two / War, Revolution, and Political Realignment; Three / The Resurgence of China Politics; Four / Divergence: New York and San Francisco in the 1950s; Five / The "Immigration Racket" Investigation and the Rise of a New Politics; Six / Chinese Americans, Orientals, Minorities: Politics in a New Era; Epilogue; Notes; Who's Who; Index
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