Editor ：Arif Dirlik

Publisher ：Rowman & Littlefield publishers, Inc.

Year ：2001

Call Number ：E184.C5 C539

Brief Introduction ：This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in nineteenth-century America through a collection of memoirs, documents, and historical anlyses from the other Western states – from the Cascades to the Great Plains. The editer, Arif Dirlik, who is a professo of history at the University of Oregon, has chosen works that enlarge out understanding of the Chinese presence in the West and the development of Chinese culture formations on the frontier. This book provides insights not only into frontier society in the United States, but also into U.S.-Chinese relations of the time. This volume will be invalubale for all readers interested in China, Western history and history of Asian America.