The Lucky Ones : : One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded paperback Edition / / Mae M. Ngai.
The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 45 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Author's Note
- Tape Family Tree
- Part I. Strivings (1864-1883)
- Part II. School Days (1884-1894)
- Part III. Native Sons and Daughters (1895-1904)
- Part IV. The Interpreter Class (1905-19117)
- Part V. Reinventions (1917-1950)
- Epi logue
- Glossary of Chinese Names
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Appendix. Documents from the Chinese Exclusion Era
- Index