Surviving the City : the Chinese immigrant experience in New York City, 1890-1970
著者
書誌事項
Surviving the City : the Chinese immigrant experience in New York City, 1890-1970
（Pacific formations）
Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, c2001
- : cloth
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-152) and index
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
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: cloth ISBN 9780742508903
内容説明
Exploring the multifaceted Chinese experience in New York City, Xinyang Wang persuasively illustrates that economic forces more than racism influenced immigrantsAI life decisions. Wang argues that rather than being passive victims, Chinese were economic actors making rational choices for survival. Wang shows why, in the first half of the century, Chinese continued to live in white neighborhoods despite severe discrimination, why they retained their group loyalties even at the expense of fighting discrimination, and why they chose not to join the established labor movement. The author traces the rise of an enclave economy in the 1950s, which led more Chinese to take up residence in Chinatown, loosen the bonds of regional and kinship networks, and unionize. Erasing long-standing stereotypes, this innovative study brings the Chinese American experience into mainstream immigrant history.
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780742508910
内容説明
This innovative work explores the multifaceted Chinese experience in New York City. Incisively questioning accepted wisdom and easy cultural assumptions, Xinyang Wang persuasively illustrates that economic forces more than racism influenced immigrantsO life decisions. Wang argues that rather than being passive victims, the Chinese were economic actors making rational choices for survival. Wang answers such questions as why for the first half of the century New York Chinese continued to live in white neighborhoods despite severe discrimination there, why they retained their group loyalties even at the expense of fighting discrimination, and why they chose not to join the established labor movement. The author shows how, with the rise of an enclave economy in the 1950s, the New York Chinese began to make different survival choices. Now more took up residence in Chinatown, loosened the bonds of regional and kinship networks, and unionized. By avoiding strictly culturalist explanations and incorporating a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants in the city, Wang erases long-standing stereotypes about the Chinese American experience and brings it into the mainstream discourse on AmericaOs immigrant history.
目次
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Artisans and Peasants from Guangdong Chapter 3 Returning Home or Staying in America? Chapter 4 Living Close to Work Chapter 5 Group Loyalties in the Work Place Chapter 6 Labor Militancy Chapter 7 Conclusion
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