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1. 973-T - In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the neighborhood that has bewitched her since childhood, when she eagerly awaited her grandfather's return from the fortune-cookie factory. Tsui visits the country's four most famous Chinatowns -- San Francisco (the oldest), New York (the biggest), Los Angeles (the film icon), Honolulu (the crossroads) -- and makes her final, fascinating stop in Las Vegas (the newest; this Chinatown began as a mall); in her explorations, she focuses on the remarkable experiences of ordinary people, everyone from first-to fifth-generation Chinese Americans.

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2. 973-T - As one of Oceana's Ethnic Chronology Series, this book follows the series format by treating the history of the Chinese in the United States in three parts: (1) chronology, (2) documents, and (3) bibliography. The changing status of the Chinese in this country during different periods, classification of documents, and selection of bibliographical materials are explained at the beginning of each category. A brief review of the subject is presented in the introduction.

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3. 973-T - This book examines the anti-Chinese movements on the west coast, the responses of the Chinese government and the Chinese officials in the United States, and the active roles of the Chinese communities in the United States in the development of the diplomatic relationship between the two countries. It shows the effect of China's efforts to protect its workers overseas as fuel for the fires of Chinese nationalism at home, leading to the anti-American boycott of 1905 and ultimately the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty.

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4. 973-T - Takaki presents a picture of the Chinese American experience in the 20th century through letters and writings as well as oral histories, conversations, speeches, and songs. A brief introductory chapter describes the group's immigration and living patterns in the U.S. in the latter part of the 19th century. The author then discusses such topics as the growth of Chinatowns and the lives of children within them. A concluding chapter records immigration after 1965.

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5. 973-T - In an extraordinarily blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate and culture, and Asian-AMerican students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This powerful and moving work, now updated with a new preface and new closing chapter, has resonance for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.

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6. 973-T - In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the neighborhood that has bewitched her since childhood, when she eagerly awaited her grandfather's return from the fortune-cookie factory. Tsui visits the country's four most famous Chinatowns -- San Francisco (the oldest), New York (the biggest), Los Angeles (the film icon), Honolulu (the crossroads) -- and makes her final, fascinating stop in Las Vegas (the newest; this Chinatown began as a mall); in her explorations, she focuses on the remarkable experiences of ordinary people, everyone from first-to fifth-generation Chinese Americans.

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7. 973-T - Unlike other books on the history of racism in America, this study seeks to offer a comparative analysis of racial domination within the context of the development of capitalsim and class divisions in nineteenth-century American society. Where scholars have examined separately the oppreesion of blacks, Indians, Mexicans, and Asians, I have tried to analyze the ways the experiences of these different groups related to each other. Where scholars have tended to isolate racism as a history of attitudes, I have attempted to relate it to the broad political, social and economic developments that occured during this formative and crucial century.

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8. 973-T - As one of Oceana's Ethnic Chronology Series, this book follows the series format by treating the history of the Chinese in the United States in three parts: (1) chronology, (2) documents, and (3) bibliography. The changing status of the Chinese in this country during different periods, classification of documents, and selection of bibliographical materials are explained at the beginning of each category. A brief review of the subject is presented in the introduction.

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9. 973-T - This book examines the Anti-Chinese Movement on the West Coast, the responses of the Chinese Government and the Chinese officials in the United States, and the active roles of the Chinese communities in the United States in the development of the diplomatic relationship between the two countries.

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10. 973-T - This book recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.

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11. 973-T - Presents the history of the Chinese American experience, from the role of Chinese tea in the American Revolution and the rich commercial and cultural interactions between China and the U.S., to an exploration of the practices and principles developed under Chinese Exclusion and their application to other cultural groups. Includes history considers the legacy and lessons of this period in America's history through photography, documents and historical objects.

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12. 973-T - A pathbreaking work by one of the leading scholars in the field, "Iron Cages" provides a unique comparative analysis of white attitudes towards Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in the nineteenth century, offering a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America. In his provocative new epilogue, "The Fourth Iron Cage," Takaki focuses on race in contemporary society within the context of America's nuclear arms-oriented ecomony. He compares the Asian-American "model minority" and the Black underclass, and extends his analysis to Native Americans, Chicanos and Puerto Ricans.

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13. 973-W - A Chinese man writes about America by request from his friends. He write it based on his two visits to America, which was about eight years. He comments about the good and the bad of this land that he finds amazing.

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14. 973-W - An illustrated history of Chinese immigration to America provides background information about China, discussing the reasons for emigrating, documenting the history of the Chinese in America, and offering primary source material including diary excerpts and letters.

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15. 973-W - Underfoot is a guide to exploring and preserving the past---your family's past, the past of your city or town, America's past. You don't have to be an expert---the clues to the past are everywhere. Any town may have its graveyard, its old houses, or perhaps a cobblestone street. This book tells how all of us can find remnants of the past, interpret and record them, and most important enjoy them.

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16. 973-W - An illustrated history of Chinese immigration to America provides background information about China, discussing the reasons for emigrating, documenting the history of the Chinese in America, and offering primary source material including diary excerpts and letters.

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17. 973-W - This collection of essays centers on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. The first section emphasizes the attempts by immigrant Chinese to assert their intention of becoming Americans and to defend the few rights they had as resident aliens. Highlighting such individuals as Yung Wing, an ardent advocate of American social and political ideals, and Wong Chin Foo, one of the first activists for Chinese citizenship and voting rights, these essays speak eloquently about the early struggles in the Americanization movement. The second section shows how children of the immigrants developed a sense of themselves as having a distinct identity as Chinese Americans. For this generation, many of the opportunities available to other immigrants' children were simply inaccessible. In some districts explicit policies kept Chinese children in segregated schools; in many workplaces discriminatory practices kept them from being hired or from advancing beyond the lowest positions. In the 1930s, in fact, some Chinese Americans felt their only option was to emigrate to China, where they could find jobs better matched to their abilities. Many young Chinese women who were eager to take advantage of the educational and work options opening to women in the wider U.S. society had to overcome first their family's opposition and then racism. As the personal testimonies and historical biographies eloquently attest, these young people deeply felt the contradictions between Chinese and American ways; but they also saw themselves as having to balance the demands of the two cultures rather than as having to choose between them.

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18. 973-W - This collection of essays centers on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. The first section emphasizes the attempts by immigrant Chinese to assert their intention of becoming Americans and to defend the few rights they had as resident aliens. Highlighting such individuals as Yung Wing, an ardent advocate of American social and political ideals, and Wong Chin Foo, one of the first activists for Chinese citizenship and voting rights, these essays speak eloquently about the early struggles in the Americanization movement. The second section shows how children of the immigrants developed a sense of themselves as having a distinct identity as Chinese Americans. For this generation, many of the opportunities available to other immigrants' children were simply inaccessible. In some districts explicit policies kept Chinese children in segregated schools; in many workplaces discriminatory practices kept them from being hired or from advancing beyond the lowest positions. In the 1930s, in fact, some Chinese Americans felt their only option was to emigrate to China, where they could find jobs better matched to their abilities. Many young Chinese women who were eager to take advantage of the educational and work options opening to women in the wider U.S. society had to overcome first their family's opposition and then racism. As the personal testimonies and historical biographies eloquently attest, these young people deeply felt the contradictions between Chinese and American ways; but they also saw themselves as having to balance the demands of the two cultures rather than as having to choose between them.

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19. 973-W - Hidden heritage : historical archaeology of the overseas Chinese This collection of chapters provides a forum for the current research results and ideas on overseas Chinese archaeology. It presents a large body of history, methods, interpretation, and artifact analysis.

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20. 973-W - The Chinese in the United States, like other nonAnglo-European minorities in this country, have experienced blatant prejudice and serious harassment. When they were no longer needed to build the western railroads in the 1870's, the Chinese were subject to flagrant attacks on their homes and business establishments as well as on their persons. They have been subject to persistent legal harassment in the form of exclusionary legislation, starting with the Exclusion Act of 1882 in California. In the 1930's, when the Chinese hand laundry business became too successful in New York, they were subject to state's legislation requiring licenses fees and posting of bonds that forces many of the smaller establishments into bankruptcy. Legal harassment continued into the 1970's, including law that prevented Chinese Americans from working in government positions. This active prejudice and harassment has resulted in the tightening of internal bonds within the minority group and the development of protective associations of one kind or another. The internal cohesiveness thus developed became the distinguishing characteristic of the Chinese American communities in cities like San Francisco and New York. Dr. Wong explains these "Chinatown" case in this book. This case study analyzes the structural adaptations that Chinese American communities in general, and the New York Chinatown in particular, have made to survive in American society. Dr. Wong's study has a wide applicability to the relationships among the ethnic components and between the ethnic components and the whole of our society.

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