Being Chinese, becoming Chinese American

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chen, Shehong, 1954-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002]
Series:	Asian American experience.
Subjects:	1900-1999 Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity. Chinese Americans > Cultural assimilation. Chinese Americans > Social conditions > 20th century. Transnationalism. Chinese Americans. Chinese Americans > Social conditions. Relations. United States > Relations > China. China > Relations > United States. United States. China.

Table of 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.