Chinese Americans and the politics of race and culture /
The essays in this book, written by people involved either involved in the strike (graduate students, faculty, organizers) or who are nationally recognized writers on academic labor, offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the current role of the university in public life, and how the pres...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Asian American history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; A Note on Transliteration and Chinese Names; Acknowledgment; Introduction: Chinese American Historiography: What Difference Has the Asian American Movement Made?
- Sucheng Chan; 1. History as Law and Life: Tape v. Hurley and the Origins of the Chinese American Middle Class
- Mae M. Ngai; 2. The Activism of Left-Wing and Communist Chinese Immigrants, 1927-1933
- Josephine Fowler; 3. Filling the Rice Bowls of China: Staging Humanitarian Relief during the Sino-Japanese War
- Karen J. Leong and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu.
- 4. From Pariah to Paragon: Shifting Images of Chinese Americans during World War II
- K. Scott Wong5. From Chop Suey to Mandarin Cuisine: Fine Dining and the Refashioning of Chinese Ethnicity during the Cold War Era
- Madeline Y. Hsu; 6. Searching for Roots in Contemporary China and Chinese America
- Andrea Louie; 7. The "Spirit of Changle": Constructing a Chinese Regional Identity in New York
- Xiaojian Zhao; Contributors; Index.