Author：Corinne K. Hoexter

Publisher：Four Winds Press

Publishing Year：1976

Call Number：F855.2.C5H695

Introduction：The date is August 28,1859.The place,Portsmouth Plaza in San Francisco. A crowd has gathered to hear the Reverend Albert Williams and the Reverend Timothy Dwight address a welcome to 100 “sober-faced” Chinese men. As the minister’s reference to an “afterlife” is translated into Cantonese, the seemingly expressionless faces of the Chinese undergo a change and the 100 immigrants begin to laugh heartily.

The concept of an afterlife was incredible to these men from a different culture, and but one of the cultural differences that made life in America so difficult for the Chinese immigrants in the nineteenth century.

What brought these people across the Pacific to the United States? And how did they live when they got here? to answer these questions, the author takes you back to China.It was there, near the city of Canton, that westerners first came to know the Chinese and formed many misconceptions about their culture and way of life.These misconceptions led to serious clashes between the Americans and the Chinese as the Chinese, lured by takes of a “Mountain of Gold”, began to immigrate to the New World in the 1850s.

This book traces the history of the Chinese in America and, in particular, the history of one man, Dr. Ng Poon Chew. As editor of the first Chinese-language newspaper in the United States, Dr. Chew became the leader and the spokesman for Chinese-Americans across the nation until his death in 1931.

作者：杨建成

出版社：文史哲出版社

年份：1982

索书号：DS595.2.C5Y22ma

介绍：本论文的主题是讨论马来西亚自独立建国以来（一九五七年至一九七八年），在西马来西亚（马来亚半岛）地区两大种族——华人与马来人之间政治关系的演化情形。

作者选择独立建国（一九五七年）作研究的期限的起点，其理由是：一九五七年马来亚联合邦制宪独立由殖民地蜕变成主权国家，当地的居民由殖民政权下的属民跃升为主权国家的公民。因此，作者把一九五七年独立宪法作为基准点，来检讨二十一年来西马地区华巫两族居民，如何以公民的身份来分享这个国家的政治权利。

Author: Min Zhou

Publisher: First Second, New York & London

Publishing Year: 2006

Call Number: E184.C5 Z63cc

Introduction: This book includes the research work on Chinese immigration and the Chinese American community. The author, Min Zhou, has painstakingly researched aspects of the expereince of Chinese immigrants and more broadly, Asian immigrants, in America, placing her results within a theoretical framework. She has advanced both our factual knowledge of Asian-origin groups in America and general scientific knowledge about the process of immigrant adaptation and incorporation into the developed world. This piece of work involves the theories of ethnic enclaves, segmented assimilation, and transnationalism, advancing novel ideas and empirical results. Overall, this book presents a comprehensive collection of major articles on the determinants and consequences of contemporary Chinese immigration to America. It is required reading for specialists in immigration and ethnicity – and of interest and value for the general public as well.

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.

Author：Gary Y.Okihiro

Publisher：University of Washington Press

Publishing Year：1994

Call Number：E184.O6K41

Introduction：In a thoughtful and stimulating contribution to the current debate about the meaning to the large society of multiculturalism, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian Americans in American history and culture. In six provocative and engaging essays he examines the Asian American experience from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture.

While exploring anew the meanings of Asian American social history, the book argues that the core values and ideals of the nation emanate today not from the so-called mainstream but from the margins,from among Asian and African Americans, Latinos and American Indians, and women. Those groups, in their struggles for equality, have helped to preserve and advance the founders’ ideals and have made America a more democratic place for all.