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The Chinese Americans' struggle for success, its costs and tenuousness, are major themes in Chang's highly readable, panoramic history of Chinese American immigration from the Gold Mountain generation to the present.
17 cze 2021 · Iris Chang, the daughter of second-wave Chinese immigrants, has written a narrative that encompasses the entire history of one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day.
30 mar 2004 · A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking.
From the earliest Chinese immigrants, to the building of the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, to the struggle of China during World War II, the fall of China under Communist rule, to the present day lives of Chinese Americans.
The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States includes three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States, beginning in the 19th century. Chinese immigrants in the 19th century worked in the California Gold Rush of the 1850s and the Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s.
15 paź 2021 · Papers from the Sixth Chinese American Conference, held July 9-11, 1999 and hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of Greater San Diego and Baja California. Includes bibliographical references and index.
4 wrz 2021 · The old country: Imperial China in the nineteenth century -- America, a new hope -- "Never Fear, and You Will Be Lucky", journey and arrival in San Francisco -- Gold rushers on Gold Mountain -- Building the transcontinental railroad -- Life on the western frontier -- Spreading across America -- Rumblings of hatred -- Chinese Exclusion Act ...
