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Paper Son : One Man's Story /
"In this memoir, Tung Pok Chin casts light on the largely hidden experience of those Chinese who immigrated to this country with false documents during the Exclusion era. Although scholars have pieced together their history, first-person accounts are rare and fragmented; many of the so-called &...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction: Paper Lives; Prologue; The Early Years; Gold Mountain; My Village; A Gold Mountain Man; Between Father and Son; Everybody for Himself; Fighting Chinese City Hall; The Cheating Game; Turning to Wisdom; Gold Mountain Dreams; A Navy Man; A New Outlook; The Confession Period
- A Bitter End, a Bright Start; A Paper Son's Duty; Under Suspicion; A Dream in Flames; Chinese Communism; Photographs; Becoming American; Paranoia; Assimilation; The Homecoming; The Problem with Confessing; The Final Visit; Writing Again; The Lunar New Year; Living in the Present.