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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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author: Rouse, Wendy L. (Author)
Format: eBook
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.