The children of Chinatown : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / Wendy Rouse Jorae.
Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese...
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Language: | English |
Published: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Constructing childhood in early Chinatown : image versus reality
- The immigration of Chinese children and the Chinese question
- Recentering the Chinese family in early Chinese American history
- For the family back home : Chinese children at work
- Challenging segregation : Chinese children at school
- Articles of contention : Chinese children in the missions and courts
- Children of the new Chinatown
- Conclusion: Constructing the future.