Chinese American Transnationalism

The Flow of People, Resources

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Edited by Sucheng Chan

Temple University Press

Due/Published December 2005, 296 pages, paper

ISBN 1592134351

Chinese American Transnationalism considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant interchange of people and economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. This book continues the exploration of the exclusion era begun in two previous volumes: Entry Denied, which examines the strategies that Chinese Americans used to protest, undermine, and circumvent the exclusion laws; and Claiming America, which traces the development of Chinese American ethnic identities. Taken together, the three volumes underscore the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed over the sixty-one year period.

Contents

1. Defying Exclusion: Chinese Immigrants and Their Strategies During the Exclusion Era ­ Erika Lee, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis2. Trading with the Gold Mountain: Jinshanzhuang and Networks of Kinship and Native Place ­ Madeline Hsu, San Francisco State University3. Against All Odds: Chinese Female Migration and Family Formation on American Soil During the Early Twentieth Century ­ Sucheng Chan, University of California, Santa Barbara4. Chinese Herbalists in the United States ­ Haiming Liu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona5. Understanding Chinese American Transnationalism During the Early Twentieth Century: An Economic Perspective ­ Yong Chen, University of California, Irvine6. Republicanism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Capitalism in Chinese American Ideology ­ Shehong Chen, University of Massachusetts, Lowell7. Teaching Chinese Americans to be Chinese: Curriculum, Teachers, and Textbooks in Chinese Schools in America During the Exclusion Era ­ Him Mark Lai, Chinese Historical Society of America­ Writing a Place in American Life: The Sensibilities of American-Born Chinese as Reflected in Life Stories from the Exclusion Era -- Xiao-huang Yin, Occidental College