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Claiming America : Constructing Chinese American Identities During the Exclusion Era Asian American History and Culture
author
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Wong, Kevin Scott.
publisher
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Temple University Press
isbn10 | asin
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1566395755
print isbn13
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9781566395755
ebook isbn13
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9780585368931
language
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English
subject
Chinese Americans--History, Chinese--United States--Social conditions.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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E184.C5C57 1998eb
ddc
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973/.04951
subject
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Chinese Americans--History, Chinese--United States--Social conditions.
Page i
Claiming America
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IN THE SERIES
ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
EDITED BY SUCHENG CHAN, DAVID PALUMBO-LIU, AND MICHAEL OMI
A list of books in the series appears at the back of this volume
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Claiming America
Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era
Edited by K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan
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Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright 1998 by Temple University. All rights reserved Published 1998 Printed in the United States of America
Interior design by Richard E. Rosenbaum
The paper in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSIZ39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Claiming America: constructing Chinese American identities during the exclusion era / edited by K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan. p. cm. (Asian American history and culture) ISBN 1-56639-575-5 (cl: alk. paper)/ISBN 1-56639-576-3 (pb: alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Chinese AmericansHistory. 2. ChineseUnited StatesSocial conditions. I. Wong, Kevin Scott. II. Chan, Sucheng. III. Title: Chinese American identities during the exclusion era. IV. Series. E184.C5C57 1998 973'.04951DC21 97-2539
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Part I: The Immigrant Generation
1 Cultural Defenders and Brokers: Chinese Responses to the Anti-Chinese Movement
K. Scott Wong
3
2 The Origins of the Chinese Americanization Movement: Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League
Qingsong Zhang
41
3 "Exercise Your Sacred Rights": The Experience of New York's Chinese Laundrymen in Practicing Democracy
Renqiu Yu
64
Part II: The American-Born Generations
4 Fighting for Their American Rights: A History of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance
Sue Fawn Chung
95
5 Race, Ethnic Culture, and Gender in the Construction of Identities among Second-Generation Chinese Americans, 1880s to 1930s
Sucheng Chan
127
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6 "Go West... to China": Chinese American Identity in the 1930s
Gloria H. Chun
165
7 The "Oriental Problem" in America, 19201960: Linking the Identities of Chinese American and Japanese American Intellectuals
Henry Yu
191
About the Contributors
215
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PREFACE
More than thirty years have passed since Roger Daniels wrote, "Other immigrant groups were celebrated for what they had accomplished; Orientals were important for what was done to them."1 In the meantime, great strides have been made in recovering and reconstructing the Asian American past, but more remains to be done. Still noticeably lacking in the literature are studies that rely primarily on the voices of Asian immigrants and their American-born offspring. For example, in Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 18821943, edited by Sucheng Chan, with the exception of the chapter by San-ling C. Wong, the other chapters do not examine how the Chinese immigrants and their American-born progeny perceived themselves and how those perceptions might have been affected by the harsh conditions under which they lived during the sixty-one years of Chinese exclusion from 1882 to 1943. As indicated in the preface to Entry Denied, "The most glaring omission... is the absence of any essays on the second, American-born generation: what it was like for them to grow up in a ghettoized setting, the schooling they received, the employment opportunities denied them, and the myriad, cultural, social, intergenerational, and interracial conflicts they experienced."
Designed to be a companion volume to Entry Denied, and to meet the implied challenge of Daniels to write Asian American history from Asian American perspectives, Claiming America contributes to the ongoing effort to fill important historiographical gaps. Within the seven chapters in this volume. Chinese immigrants and Chinese
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The paper in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSIZ39.48-1984.