The Chinese in America
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Chang (The Rape of Nanking) tells how at certain times in history, certain Chinese decided to leave the land of their ancestors and their own people to move to the US; and what happened to them when they arrived. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR The Los Angeles Times Iris Chang of San Jose, the author of the 1997 book The Rape of Nanking,
IntroductionCh. 1The Old Country: Imperial China in the Nineteenth Century1Ch. 2America: A New Hope20Ch. 3"Never Fear, and You Will Be Lucky": Journey and Arrival in San Francisco29Ch. 4Gold Rushers on Gold Mountain38Ch. 5Building the Transcontinental Railroad53Ch. 6Life on the Western Frontier65Ch. 7Spreading Across America93Ch. 8Rumblings of Hatred116Ch. 9The Chinese Exclusion Act130Ch. 10Work and Survival in the Early Twentieth Century157Ch. 11A New Generation Is Born173Ch. 12Chinese America During the Great Depression199Ch. 13"The Most Important Historical Event of Our Times": World War II215Ch. 14"A Mass Inquisition": The Cold War, the Chinese Civil War, and McCarthyism236Ch. 15New Arrivals, New Lives: The Chaotic 1960s261Ch. 16The Taiwanese Americans283Ch. 17The Bamboo Curtain Rises: Mainlanders and Model Minorities312Ch. 18Decade of Fear: The 1990s334Ch. 19High Tech vs. Low Tech348Ch. 20An Uncertain Future389Notes405Acknowledgments477Index481
