"A Philip E. Lilienthal Book." Includes bibliographical references and index. "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.
Contents:
Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.
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