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出版社:B A E
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ISBN:0883631288
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作者:DUSANKA MISCEVIC
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頁數:240
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出版日期:2000-01-01
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印刷日期:2000-01-01
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包裝:平裝
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開本:8開
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版次:1
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印次:1
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Chinese Americans: The Immigrant Experience combines a powerful historical text about the Chinese experience in America--from the earliest immigrants through the present day--with close to 2oo extraordinary images carefully selected to provide new perspective. Early chroniclers of Chinese life in America dwelled on the "exotic" and "alien" image of the Chinese people, as evidenced in nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs, drawings, and posters. Despite the fact that they made an enormous contribution to the development of the American West by working in the mines and on the railroads, once the railroads were completed, they found themselves ostracized by the exclusion and miscegenation laws and isolated in urban ghettos as undesirable aliens.
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The powerful story of one of the most heavily persecuted
immigrant groups to arrive on our shores is a poignant, often
somber, look at the struggles and triumphs of the more than two
million Chinese who left their native land for a chance at a
better life. The Chinese arrived here around the same time as the
so-called old immigrants, (the Germans and the Irish), and much
earlier than any of the southern and eastern European groups. But
unlike European immigrants, they found themselves ostracized by
exclusion laws, never expected to assimilate. Only after the 1882
Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed in 1943 could they embark on a
typical American immigrant path to success.
Chinese Americans: The Immigrant Experience combines a
powerful historical text about the Chinese experience in America
--from the earliest immigrants through the present day--with
close to 2oo extraordinary images carefully selected to provide
new perspective. Early chroniclers of Chinese life in America
dwelled on the "exotic" and "alien" image of the Chinese people,
as evidenced in nineteenth and early twentieth century
photographs, drawings, and posters. Despite the fact that they
made an enormous contribution to the development of the American
West by working in the mines and on the railroads (9,000 of the
initially planned 10,000 laborers on the Central Pacific
P,,ailroad were Chinese), once the railroads were completed, they
found themselves ostracized by the exclusion and miscegenation
laws and isolated in urban ghettos as undesirable aliens. The
early visual records presented in Chinese Americans set the
somber mood for the story of the Chinese in America. But the book
also provides ample evidence that the Chinese have made the best
of the opportunities given them: from the poor peasants lured
into indentured servitude by greedy American employers, to the
chosen members of the educated elite who took refuge in the
U.S.during civil strife in China.
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INTRODUCTION EARLY SINO-AMERICAN CONTACTS CHINA TRADE AND THE OPIUM WARS EARLY CHINESE IMMIGRATION CHINESE EXCLUSION THE RISE OF CHINESE GHETTOS PARTIAL ACCEPTANCE THE NEW ERA UPTOWN/DOWNTOWN CHINESE AMERICANS CHINESE-AMERiCAN WOMEN ARRIVED AT LONG LAST CHINESE SITES ON THE INTERNET INDEX AND PHOTO CREDITS
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