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Learning to be Chinese American

Author  :Liang Du

Publisher :Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.

Publishing Year :2010

Call Number :E184.C5 D812

Introduction :

This book explores the complicated identity production process among Chinese immigrants in the United States in relation to rapidly changing global and local contexts. Based on original ethnographic material collected in an upper-middle-class Chinese American community, the author argues for the need to move beyond the framework of traditional nation-state boundaries in order to examine the identity production process of contempory Chinese Americans. This book expands the scope of existing literature on identity production among immigrants of color in both empirical and methodological terms.

Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943- A Trans-Pacific Community

Author: Yong ChenChinese in San Francisco

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Year: 2000

Call Number: F870.C5C518

Introduction: Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. For those Chinese traveling between the Old World and the New, San Francisco was a port of entry and departure. Many Chinese settled there, forming one of the oldest continuing ethnic communities in urban America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco, relating the development of various social and cultural institutions, ranging from brothels to the powerful “Six Companies”. The book recaptures in vivid detail not only the community’s collective mentalities but also the lives of ordinary people-laborers, theatre-goers, gamblers, and prostitutes. In so doing, the author achieves what has been missing from virtually all the historiographic writing on the Chinese in America-he brings to life individual personalities with their varying human qualities.

百年金山-我的美籍华人家族奋斗史

作者:泗丽莎百年金山

出版社:广西师范大学出版社

年份:2010

索书号:F870.C5S451 2010

介绍:泗家族是20世纪美国西海岸最为成功和显赫的华裔家族之一。家族创立者邝泗,是广东佛山的一个乡村少年。1871年,在族人的资助下,14岁的邝泗只身漂洋,到达金山(中国人对美国的旧称),凭借自身的机变和胆识,在华工群体中脱颖而出,开创了百年华裔家族企业-邝泗公司。其间,他结识并迎娶了白人少女莱蒂茜,创立混血家族“泗”姓。经过几代人披荆斩棘,奋力拼搏,泗家族积累了大量的财富,赢得了尊崇的社会地位,创造了传奇的发迹神话,演绎了美国大陆少数族群跻身主流甚至上流社会的华丽梦想。

Chinese In The Post/Civil War South——A People Without A History

Author:Lucy M. Cohen

Publisher:Louisiana State University Press

Publishing Year:1984

Call Number:F220.C5C678

Introduction:This book is a study of efforts to introduce Chinese as substitutes for emancipated slaves in the South, and especially in Louisiana, after the Civil War. Relatively small numbers of Chinese were bought to the region, and the contract system under which they were employed was a failure. Because of changing concepts of race relations in the nation and in the region and because of the system of social organization prevalent at the time, the Chinese who remained in the area disappeared from the public awareness as a distinct group.

华人纵横天下——冲破美国玻璃天花板

5c5d0629-9c8e-4bfa-ac3a-8bf5603c8c52作者:张克荣

出版社:现代出版社

年份:2006

索书号:E184.C5Z63p

介绍:“这是一部真正令人大开眼界和引人入胜的作品,它使我们得以一窥那些几近狂妄的名人——政治家、科学家、建筑师及企业家,而他们正是我们这个世界的造型师。

当我了解这个庞大的项目只是由一个人来完成的时候,这完全超乎了我理性知觉的空间。诚如作者所表露的,生命于他是一场真实与幻想、浮面与内里潜藏的神秘不断交织的过程。这也使得他的作品产生了独特惊人的心灵撞击效果,他清楚地呈现出了我们这个时代最具才华、最具挑战性的人物的所言所思,他们的表象与真实面。

——迈克·华莱士(美国记者,以采访世界各国政要闻名)