Author：Bruce Edward Hall

Publisher：The Free Press

Publishing Year：1998

Call Number：F128.68.C47H174

Introduction：”Chinatown was the only constant in my life,it seemed, the only spot to which I could always return to familiar surroundings and see the thumbprints of generations that had died before living memory. The crowded, tiny streets, the restaurants we held our semi-annual banquets in, even the ducks hanging in the dusty window of the old grocery store on the corner seemed eternal, although I knew perfectly well that those ducks were freshly killed everyday. It was a place with tradition, with customs, with old people who knew my father and would call him by baby names I never heard anywhere else. It was a place that America hadn’t homogenized out of existence,and there one could smell the village where the Ancestors had lived for perhaps a thousand years before. This is the history of that foreign universe called Chinatown, New York, with my Ancestors providing the string with which to tie together the loose beads of the past. The Chinese side of my family has experienced almost every phase of development of life in Chinatown, from early settlement, to racial apartheid, to Tong Wars, to all- American domesticity. All along the way were generous doses of magic, and poetry, and the exquisite, mystical beauty which was never to be found in the bland, white-bread towns of my youth.”

From the Introduction

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.

Author: Yong Chen

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.

作者：泗丽莎

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。

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.