Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community and Stories of Their Lives

ISBN-13: 9780815338031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 260 str.

Jianli Zhao; Franklin Ng

Opis

Based largely on oral history interviews and through the focus on Atlanta, this book provides new insights into the rise of the new Chinese and Asian communities in the Southeast United States since US immigration policy changes in 1965. It looks at the history of the Chinese in the South in general and life of the Atlanta Chinese in particular in an effort to bring awareness to the multiplying Asian population in the Southeastern US. This book complements earlier studies of the Chinese in the South by James Loewen, Robert Seto Quan and Lucy M. Cohen. It provides a snapshot of the changes that are occurring in many Chinese communities in the recent years. The immigrants today are no longer exclusively Cantonese, and their numbers include greater and greater numbers of immigrants from Taiwan, other parts of mainland China, Hong Kong, and other Asian countries and regions. The successful use of oral history interviews gives readers a glimpse of the life history trajectories of different individuals, and a fascinating insight into the lives of women immigrants.

Recenzje

"Zhao's study offers a necessary corrective to starkly black-and-white conceptions of the region's race relations." -- Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

Introduction, Part 1 Community History & Development, Part 2 The People, Stories of their lives in Atlanta, Conclusions.

O autorze

Zhao, Jianli