The Chinese in America - Iris Chang [0]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE - The Old Country: Imperial China in the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER TWO - America: A New Hope
CHAPTER THREE - “Never Fear, and You Will Be Lucky”: Journey and Arrival in ...
CHAPTER FOUR - Gold Rushers on Gold Mountain
CHAPTER FIVE - Building the Transcontinental Railroad
CHAPTER SIX - Life on the Western Frontier
CHAPTER SEVEN - Spreading Across America
CHAPTER EIGHT - Rumblings of Hatred
CHAPTER NINE - The Chinese Exclusion Act
CHAPTER TEN - Work and Survival in the Early Twentieth Century
CHAPTER ELEVEN - A New Generation Is Born
CHAPTER TWELVE - Chinese America During the Great Depression
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - “The Most Important Historical Event of Our Times”: World ...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - “A Mass Inquisition”: The Cold War, the Chinese Civil War, ...
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - New Arrivals, New Lives: The Chaotic 196Os
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The Taiwanese Americans
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - The Bamboo Curtain Rises: Mainlanders and Model Minorities
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Decade of Fear: The 1990s
CHAPTER NINETEEN - High Tech vs. Low Tech
CHAPTER TWENTY - An Uncertain Future
NOTES
Acknowledgements
INDEX
Praise for Iris Chang and The Chinese in America
“Comprehensive, beautifully written, filled with deft and passionate analysis —the definitive book on Chinese American history for a new generation. Iris Chang places today’s Chinese Americans brilliantly into 150 years of U.S. history.”
—David Henry Hwang, Obie and Tony award-winning playwright of M. Butterfly and Flower Drum Song
“A major drama ... Chang’s book is crammed with telling stories not only from the mining camps and Chinatowns of America but from Chinese villages and cities. Chang has found a great subject, and her stories are well worth reading.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Valuable for the mirror it holds up to the United States ... Chang’s timely book deserves to be read in homes and schools because it documents well the struggles of one ethnic group to win its rightful place alongside others.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Tells the story thoroughly and with confidence . . . vital to our history. To understand who we are in the early twenty-first century one must know who we were and how we got here. Iris Chang’s book tells one important part of the American story comprehensively.”
—Los Angeles Times
“As a chronicle of the timeless battle for civil liberties, the book is high, panoramic drama.”
—The Oregonian (Portland)
“Informative, thought-provoking and entertaining.”
—Asian Week
“May be the definitive history of the Chinese experience in this country.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Both a sweeping view and personal stories of what it means to be Chinese in the United States ... [told] in clear, rich prose.”
—San Jose Mercury News
“[An] engrossing account of Chinese-American struggles and triumphs.... Chang, perhaps the best young historian working today, combines exhaustive research with sheer writing ability to fashion a unique history that has the potential to reach a wide audience.”
—Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
“If you are hungry for the history of the American experience, The Chinese in America is a must-read. We are fortunate to have the incomparable Iris Chang tell this important and timely story.”
—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers
“A remarkable narrative . . . an epic that flows effortlessly and sweeps the reader along for an informative, fascinating and emotional ride.... This book is not just for Chinese Americans but also for all newly arrived immigrants and conscientious citizens that care to appreciate the deficiencies of the American democracy.”
—George Koo, Pacific News Service
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Iris Chang graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminars program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread