The Chinese Experience in America

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How have the Chinese fared in America? What motivated them to come herein the nineteenth century? How were they received by native Americans? These aresome of the questions that Henry Tsai deals with in this important new book. Hetreats the nineteenth-century immigration experience, the development of earlyChinese communities, American exclusion and the difficulties of living in the shadowof exclusion, and the Chinese community in the post-World War II era and today. Alsocovered are Chinese women in conemporary American society, the problems withchildren and youth in a multiracial society, and international issues such as therelationships between the U.S., China, and Taiwan, and the implications of theseissues for the Chinese in America. The work provides a solid statistical analysis ina way that will be accessible to students and scholars as well as generalreaders.