American exodus :: second-generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901-1949 /

In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to China--a relocation they assumed would be permanent. At a time when people from around the world flocked to the United States, this little-noticed emigration belied America's image...

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Main Author: Brooks, Charlotte, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to China--a relocation they assumed would be permanent. At a time when people from around the world flocked to the United States, this little-noticed emigration belied America's image as a magnet for immigrants and a land of upward mobility for all. Fleeing racism, Chinese Americans who sought greater opportunities saw China, a tottering empire and then a struggling republic, as their promised land. American Exodus is the first book to explore this extraordinary migration of Chinese
Item Description:"In the early twentieth century, between one-third and one-half of all native-born Chinese American citizens left the United States for China under the assumption that they would never permanently return to the land of their birth. American Exodus explores this little-known aspect of modern Chinese and American history through the lives of the thousands of Chinese Americans who settled in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and the Pearl River Delta"--Provided by publisher
"A Philip E. Lilienthal Book."
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780520972551
0520972554

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