Author : Roger Daniels

Publisher : University of Washington Press

Year : 1988

Call Number : E184.O6D186

Introduction : In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1980s, Daniels presents a basic history comprising the political and socioeconomic background of Chinese and Japanese but between Asian and European immigration experiences, clarifying the integral role of Asians in American history. The book is orgarnized topically and chronologically, beginning with the emigration of each ethnic group and concluding with an epilogue that looks to the future from the perspective of the last two decades of Chinese and Japanese American history. Included in this survey are discussions of the reasons for emigration; the fate of the first-generation immigrants; the reception of immigrants by United States goverment and its people;the growth of immigrant communities; the effects of discriminatory legislation the impact of WWII and the succeeding Cold War era on Chinese and Japanese Americans during the last twenty years.