Author : Madeline Y. Hsu

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Year : 2000

Call Number : E184.O6H968

Introduction : This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal country in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and magazine, supplemented by field-work and interviews as well as recent scholarship in Chinese social history, the author presents a much richer depiction than we have had heretofore of the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in “Gold Mountain”. This is an outstanding book, an example for how to do a transnational study that captures the often globe-spanning histories of migrants out of Asia.