Being Chinese, becoming Chinese American / Shehong Chen.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Asian American experience.
Main Author: Chen, Shehong, 1954-
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002], ©2002.
Series:Asian American experience.
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Chinese Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Transnationalism.
United States > Relations > China.
China > Relations > United States.
Physical Description:xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A search for a modern China and challenges to traditional Chinese identity, 1911
  • Defending Chinese republicanism and debating Chineseness in the United States, 1912-14
  • Constructing a Chinese American identity, 1915
  • An ideological foundation of the Chinese American identity, 1916-24
  • Building permanent Chinese American communities and displaying American Chinatown culture, 1920-27
  • Appendix: political events in China, 1898-1924.