ABOUT THIS BOOK

This fully revised and redesigned edition traces the Chinese experience in the United States from the 1780s to the present, demonstrating that Chinese Americans have played an active role in shaping the history of our nation. This revised edition includes new material on children's history, transnationalism, and health care, and the author has expanded his original text and included more Chinese American voices.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Benson Tong is a professor of history at Wichita State University and the author of Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.

REVIEWS

"The book is extensive in its approach, covering Chinese American influence in art, TV, movies, politics and more."
—Today's Librarian

"The book updates the classic works in the field by Roger Daniels, Sucheng Chan, and Shih-shan Henry Ts'ai on Chinese Americans."
—Journal of American Ethnic History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Preface to the First Edition	xi
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition	xiii
Acknowledgments for the First Edition	xv
	1	Roots of a Diaspora: Chinese Culture and Society in the 
		Late Qing Period	00
	2	Travelers to Gold Mountain: Immigration, Labor, and Exclusion	00
	3	Nationalism and Americanization Pre-World War II	00
	4	New Ties and New Lives in Cold War America	00
	5	Socioeconomic Mobility and the Ethnic Economy	00
	6	Political Mobilization and Empowerment	00
	7	The Arts and Chinese Americans	00
	8	Chinese American Families and Identities	00
Notes	00
Index	00
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Chinese Americans

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