| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
"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 |
| 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 |
| Note |
"A Philip E. Lilienthal Book." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese Americans -- China -- 20th century.
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Chinese Americans. |
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China. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Second-generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901-1949 |
| Other Form: |
Print version Brooks, Charlotte, 1971- American exodus Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520302679 (DLC) 2019001395 (OCoLC)1083153080 |
| ISBN |
9780520972551 electronic book |
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0520972554 electronic book |
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9780520302679 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0520302672 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780520302686 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520302680 paperback alkaline paper |
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