Cargando…

Chinese Americans in the Heartland : Migration, Work, and Community /

"The term "Heartland" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ling, Huping, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Defining the Asian American heartland and its significance
  • Transnational migration and businesses in Chinese Chicago, 1870s-1930s
  • Building "hop alley" : myth and reality of Chinatown in St. Louis, 1860s-1930s
  • Intellectual tradition of heartland : Chicago School and beyond
  • Family and marriage in heartland, 1880s-1940s
  • Living heartland : 1860s-1950s
  • Governing heartland : on Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906-1966
  • The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the formation of cultural community in St. Louis
  • The tripartite community in Chicago
  • Conclusion: Convergences and divergences.