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To save China, to save ourselves : the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York /
Combining exhaustive archival research in Chinese language sources and oral history interviews, Renqiu Yu examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organization that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundrymen break their isolation from American society. Yu brings to life the men who l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1992.
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| Colección: | Asian American history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Chinese Names and Transliteration; Introduction; One: Chinese Laundrymen in New York City; Two: The Emergence of the CHLA; Three: The Alliance Is for the Laundrymen; Four: "To Save China, To Save Ourselves"; Five: "The People's Diplomacy"; Six: The Struggle Over a Penny; Seven: Where Is the Gold Mountain?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.