| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
New lives in the south : Chinese American merchant and student immigrants -- The modernizers : US-educated Chinese Americans in China -- The golden age ends : Chinese Americans and the rise of anti-imperialist nationalism -- The Nanjing decade : Chinese American immigrants and the nationalist regime -- Agonizing choices : the war against Japan, 1937-1945 |
| Summary |
In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to China--a relocation they assumed would be permanent. At a time when people from around the world flocked to the United States, this little-noticed emigration belied America's image as a magnet for immigrants and a land of upward mobility for all. Fleeing racism, Chinese Americans who sought greater opportunities saw China, a tottering empire and then a struggling republic, as their promised land. American Exodus is the first book to explore this extraordinary migration of Chinese |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
"In the early twentieth century, between one-third and one-half of all native-born Chinese American citizens left the United States for China under the assumption that they would never permanently return to the land of their birth. American Exodus explores this little-known aspect of modern Chinese and American history through the lives of the thousands of Chinese Americans who settled in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and the Pearl River Delta"--Provided by publisher |
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"A Philip E. Lilienthal Book." |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2023) |
| Subject |
Chinese Americans -- China -- 20th century
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Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Chinese Americans
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Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019002611 |
| ISBN |
9780520972551 |
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0520972554 |
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