Author: Jonathan Lee
Publisher:
ABC-CLIO
9781610695503
This in-depth historical analysis highlights the enormous contributions of Chinese Americans to the professions, politics, and popular culture of America, from the 19th century through the present day.
Highlights the distinctive roles that Chinese Americans have added to the fabric of American lifeIllustrates the experience of Chinese Americans with discrimination, resistance, and assimilationConsiders the émigrés of the Sinophone diaspora with entries on Cambodian-Chinese and Vietnamese-Chinese AmericansOffers a selection of fascinating primary documents that enrich the reader's experienceReveals the problems that Chinese American women faced with the passage of the 1882 Exclusion Act