Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1994
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Publisher: Chinese Historical Society
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Total Pages: 118
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Chinese America, History and Perspectives
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 636
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing Chinese, Becoming Chinese American
Author: Shehong Chen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2023-03-20
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0252055187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1911 revolution in China sparked debates that politicized and divided Chinese communities in the United States. People in these communities affirmed traditional Chinese values and expressed their visions of a modern China, while nationalist feelings emboldened them to stand up for their rights as an integral part of American society. When Japan threatened the China's young republic, the Chinese response in the United States revealed the limits of Chinese nationalism and the emergence of a Chinese American identity. Shehong Chen investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during the crucial period between 1911 and 1927. Chen focuses on four essential elements of a distinct Chinese American identity: support for republicanism over the restoration of monarchy; a wish to preserve Confucianism and traditional Chinese culture; support for Christianity, despite a strong anti-Christian movement in China; and opposition to the Nationalist party's alliance with the Soviet Union and cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party. Sensitive and enlightening, Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American documents how Chinese immigrants survived exclusion and discrimination, envisioned and maintained Chineseness, and adapted to American society.
The Chinese in America
Author: Iris Chang
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-03-30
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1101126876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws and anti-Asian violence, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.
Chinese Immigrants and American Law
Author: Charles McClain
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780815318491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Chinese America: History and Perspectives 2003
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Publisher: Chinese Historical Society
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 1885864159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHometown Chinatown
Author: Eva Armentrout Ma
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1317775813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the local history of the Chinese in Oakland, California, this study examines common stereotypes in the early Chinese community and Chinatown organizations.
Chinese American Death Rituals
Author: Sue Fawn Chung
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2005-09-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0759114625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeath is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. In the English-speaking world, eulogies in poetic form could be traced back to the 1640s, but gained prominence with the 'graveyard school' of poets in the eighteenth century often stressing the finality of death. Chinese American Death Rituals examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century until the present in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time. The authors in this volume discuss the meaning of funerary rituals and their normative dimension and the social practices that have been influenced by tradition. Shaped by individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment, Chinese Americans have resolved the tensions between assimilation into the mainstream culture and their strong Chinese heritage in a variety of ways. This volume expertly describes and analyzes Chinese American cultural retention and transformation in rituals after death.
Becoming Chinese American
Author: H. Mark Lai
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780759104587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of essays by Chinese-American scholar Him Mark Lai; published in association with the Chinese Historical Society of San Francisco.
Women and Twentieth-century Protestantism
Author: Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780252069987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors consider the emergence of Latina Pentecostal clergy in the United States and the success of the Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention in remaining independent of male-dominated denominational structures. Among other topics, the authors discuss Chinese immigrant women who embraced the relative freedom offered by Protestant religion, African American women who assumed religious authority through their historical writing, and the struggles of women faith healers in defining their role amid medical and evangelical professionalism.
