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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Teng, Emma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.