Chinese Americans in the Heartland : : Migration, Work, and Community / / Huping Ling.
The term “Heartland” in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population grow...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian American Studies Today
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 20 b&w images, 5 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Translation and Terminology
- 1 Introduction: Defining the Asian American Heartland and Its Significance
- PART I Transnational Migration and Work
- 2 Transnational Migration and Businesses in Chinese Chicago, 1870s–1930s
- 3 Building “Hop Alley”: Myth and Reality of Chinatown in St. Louis, 1860s–1930s
- 4 The Intellectual Tradition of the Heartland: The Chicago School and Beyond
- PART II Marriage, Family, and Community Organizations
- 5 Family and Marriage among Chicagoland Chinese, 1880s–1940s
- 6 Living in “Hop Alley,” 1860s–1930s
- 7 Governing “Hop Alley”: The On Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906–1966
- PART III New Community Structures
- 8 The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the Formation of Cultural Community in St. Louis
- 9 The Tripartite Community in Chicago
- 10 Conclusion: Convergences and Divergences
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author