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Author:

Chen, Shehong, 1954-

Title:

Being Chinese, becoming Chinese American / Shehong Chen.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xiii, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation.
Chinese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Transnationalism.
United States--Relations--China.
China--Relations--United States

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.

Contents:

A search for a modern China and challenges to traditional Chinese identity, 1911 -- Defending Chinese republicanism and debating Chineseness in the United States, 1912-14 -- Constructing a Chinese American identity, 1915 -- An ideological foundation of the Chinese American identity, 1916-24 -- Building permanent Chinese American communities and displaying American Chinatown culture, 1920-27 -- Appendix: political events in China, 1898-1924.

Series:

The Asian American experience

ISBN:

9780252027369 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252027361 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48053750

LCCN:

2001005762

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)