Dreaming of gold, dreaming of home : transnationalism and migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 /

"This book is a study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and magazines, supple...

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Main Author: Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.
Series:Asian America.
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