Eurasian : mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 /
In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Canton Mandarin weds a Connecticut Yankee : Chinese-western intermarriage becomes a "problem"
- Mae Watkins becomes a "real Chinese wife" : marital expatriation, migration, and transracial hybridity
- "A problem for which there is no solution" : the new hybrid brood and the specter of degeneration in New York's Chinatown
- "Productive of good to both sides" : the Eurasian as solution in Chinese utopian visions of racial harmony
- Reversing the sociological lens : putting Sino-American "mixed bloods" on the miscegenation map
- The "peculiar cast" : navigating the American color line in the era of Chinese exclusion
- On not looking Chinese : Chineseness as consent or descent?
- "No gulf between a Chan and a smith amongst us" : Charles Graham Anderson's manifesto for Eurasian unity in interwar Hong Kong
- Coda : Elsie Jane comes home to rest
- Epilogue.