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Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America by : Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America written by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Chinese in the United States focusing on their struggle for acceptance by the white population and their contributions to the development of their new country.
Book Synopsis The Chinese in America by : Iris Chang
Download or read book The Chinese in America written by Iris Chang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.
Book Synopsis Strangers from a Different Shore by : Ronald T. Takaki
Download or read book Strangers from a Different Shore written by Ronald T. Takaki and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America by : Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America written by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Chinese in the United States focusing on their struggle for acceptance by the white population and their contributions to the development of their new country.
Download or read book America written by Kevin Baker and published by A & E Home Video. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America The Story of Us is a groundbreaking series that brings to life the epic story of our nation in a new way for a new generation. The companion book, America The Story of Us is a history that is at once penetrating and lively, elegant and authoritative; great for serious reading as it is for casual skimming. America The Story of Us brings to life the vast forces that shaped this remarkable country and the ways in which revolutions in technology and transportation altered the way Americans lived, made money, and fought one another. Explored in these pages is the struggle between settlers and Native Americans; the epic conflict of slavery, from cotton gin to Civil War; the creation of the transcontinental railroad alongside the thundering herds of buffalo across the West; and how American ingenuity and determination both carried us through the Great Depression and won the Second World War. Beginning with Jamestown and Plymouth Bay, the first successful British colonies on the mainland, the book highlights the landmark moments in political, social, economic, and military history, from the prototypical entrepreneur John Rolfe and his tobacco seeds to Barack Obama and the seeds of change, from the Model T to the moon landing. Written by novelist, historian, and journalist Kevin Baker (a key contributor to The American Century, by Harold Evans), the narrative shares the TV series- eye for the dramatic moment in U.S. history-there is danger, action, struggle-while adding new layers of detail and nuance. America The Story of Us is decisive and essential, the story of the country that every family will want to own. Foreword by President Obama A stunning companion piece for the most anticipated HISTORY broadcast of all time, includes 412 heavily illustrated pages featuring over 300 full color images and layers of information including "charticles,” graphics, photographs, and text. The adventure that became a nation - the complete history of the US has not been told for 40 years. AMERICA the Story of Us is an exuberant, unprecedented look at the invention of America focusing on how events small and large are intrinsically linked to the exploration and innovation, leading us from the frontier to 21st century cities, from the Mississippi to the moon, from Jamestown to 9/11 up to present day. Moving though time and space linking key events, people and locations, capturing the vast sweep of American history-- bringing viewers on a journey through the forces that shaped the destiny of America.
Book Synopsis The Making of Asian America by : Erika Lee
Download or read book The Making of Asian America written by Erika Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as ... historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today"--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Chinese American by : John Kuo Wei Tchen
Download or read book Chinese American written by John Kuo Wei Tchen and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of the Chinese American experience, from the role of Chinese tea in the American Revolution and the rich commercial and cultural interactions between China and the U.S., to an exploration of the practices and principles developed under Chinese Exclusion and their application to other cultural groups. This concise, illustrated history considers the legacy and lessons of this period in America's history through photography, documents and historical objects. AUTHOR: John Kuo Wei Tchen is the co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America. SELLING POINTS: * Accompanies a major exhibition at the New-York Historical Society from October 2014-May 2015 * Will be of interest to the growing population of Chinese Americans and those interested in the cultural and historical connections between the two countries 50 colour illustrations
Book Synopsis The Chinese Americans by : Milton Meltzer
Download or read book The Chinese Americans written by Milton Meltzer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Chinese in the United States describing their contributions to the development of this country and their struggle for economic and social equality.
Author :Chinese Historical Society of America Publisher :Chinese Historical Society ISBN 13 :1885864051 Total Pages :91 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (858 download)
Book Synopsis Chinese America by : Chinese Historical Society of America
Download or read book Chinese America written by Chinese Historical Society of America and published by Chinese Historical Society. This book was released on 1997 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chinese Americans by : Elizabeth Andrews
Download or read book Chinese Americans written by Elizabeth Andrews and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the story of Chinese Americans. Readers will learn about the history of Chinese immigration to the United States. Entertaining text will illustrate what life is like for Chinese American families and how they celebrate their culture. Features include a map, timeline, glossary, Making Connection questions and sidebars. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. DiscoverRoo is an imprint of Pop!, a division of ABDO.
Book Synopsis Chinese Americans by : Dale Anderson
Download or read book Chinese Americans written by Dale Anderson and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes why many Chinese immigrated to the United States and how they overcame discrimination to succeed in all avenues of society.
Book Synopsis The First Chinese American by : Scott D. Seligman
Download or read book The First Chinese American written by Scott D. Seligman and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847–1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term “Chinese American,” Wong defended his compatriots against malicious scapegoating and urged them to become Americanized to win their rights. A trailblazer and a born showman who proclaimed himself China’s first Confucian missionary to the United States, he founded America’s first association of Chinese voters and testified before Congress to get laws that denied them citizenship repealed. Wong challenged Americans to live up to the principles they freely espoused but failed to apply to the Chinese in their midst. This evocative biography is the first book-length account of the life and times of one of America’s most famous Chinese—and one of its earliest campaigners for racial equality.
Download or read book The Lucky Ones written by Mae M. Ngai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans. Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 case Tape v. Hurley. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how Chinese American brokers essentially invented Chinatown, and so Chinese culture, for American audiences. Finally, The Lucky Ones reveals aspects--timely, haunting, and hopeful--of the lasting legacy of the immigrant experience for all Americans. This expanded edition features a new preface and a selection of historical documents from the Chinese exclusion era that forms the backdrop to the Tape family's story.
Book Synopsis The Chinese in America by : Otis Gibson
Download or read book The Chinese in America written by Otis Gibson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. CHINESE WOMEN IN AMERICA. HEATHENISM always degrades woman; and the civilization of China for thousands of years has rested upon a heathen idolatrous basis. There, woman before marriage has no rights outside the will of her parents, and no rights outside the will of her husband after marriage. Custom, however, demands that every respectable girl of suitable age shall be married. Early marriages are universal. Old bachelors are common, but elderly maiden ladies, --a most useful and worthy class of people in any country, --are entirely unknown in China. Marriage is the privilege, duty, and fate of Chinese girls. But the courtships leading to marriage, the betrothal, the arrangements for the marriage festivities and life settlement are all conducted for the children by the parents or guardians, with the help of a middle-man or go-between. The Chinese maiden, before marriage, is kept in seclusion and ignorance. The principal lesson she has to learn is obedience. She is not sent to school. She never mingles in promiscuous society; never receives personal attention or letters of correspondence from any young gentleman whatever; never listens to the voice of a lover; never receives upon her waiting lips the blissful pledge of plighted troth. She is betrothed by her parents when quite young, often under ten years of age. In this important matter of marriage the girls of China have no choice, no voice. Their wishes, preferences, and affections are never consulted. Although our young people would rebel against the introduction of such a custom among us, yet it is doubtful whether the system of boy and girl courtship which prevails in this country results in any better life settlements than those arranged for the inexperienced young.
Book Synopsis Escape to Gold Mountain by : David H. T. Wong
Download or read book Escape to Gold Mountain written by David H. T. Wong and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic graphic novel about the experience of Chinese immigrants in North America over the past 150 years.
Download or read book Chinese America written by Peter Kwong and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive portrait of the Chinese experience in the U.S., this book charts 150 years of American history from the Chinese frontiersmen of the Wild West to the high-tech trans-nationals of today. This panoramic narrative takes us inside 19th-cent. mining camps, Chinese Amer. nightclubs of the 1930s and 1940s, and today¿s booming ¿ethnoburbs,¿ among other places. Hailed by Margaret Fung, the exec. dir. of the Asian Amer. Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, as ¿quite simply, the best book about the history of exclusion and injustice against Chinese immigrants and the role of Chinese Americans today,¿ this is a fascinating and entirely original examination of an immigrant story too often rendered as a simple tale of triumph over adversity. Photos.
Download or read book China Men written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-04-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
