Lucky Ones

One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded paperback Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans. Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 case Tape v. Hurley. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how Chinese American brokers essentially invented Chinatown, and so Chinese culture, for American audiences. Finally, The Lucky Ones reveals aspects--timely, haunting, and hopeful--of the lasting legacy of the immigrant experience for all Americans. This expanded edition features a new preface and a selection of historical documents from the Chinese exclusion era that forms the backdrop to the Tape family's story.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-05-27
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagPrinceton University Press
ISBN9780691155326

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Preface to the Paperback Edition viii Author's Note x Tape Family Tree xiv Maps xv Part I : Strivings (1864-1883) 1. The Lucky One 3 2. The First Rescue 14 3. Joseph and Mary 24 Part II : School Days (1884-1894) 4. "That Chinese Girl" 43 5. Chinatown's Frontier 58 Part III: Native Sons and Daughters (1895-1904) 6. Suburban Squire 71 7. Two Marriages 83 8. The Chinese Village 95 Part IV: The Interpreter Class (1905-1917) 9. Blood and Fire 119 10. In Pursuit of Smugglers 135 11. Modern Life 150 12. The Trial 161 13. "Sailors Should Go Ashore" 173 Part V : Reinventions (1917-1950) 14. The New Daughter-in-Law 189 15. Loss 201 16. Service 207 Epilogue 223 Glossary of Chinese Names 231 Acknowledgments 233 Notes 235 Appendix: Documents from the Chinese Exclusion Era 277 Index 315

"[A] fresh portrait of Chinese immigrants, America and the past century ... deceptively novelistic and evocative... [A]n absorbing story."--Anderson Tepper, New York Times Book Review "Ngai fashions a terrifically readable, compelling work about the little-known middle-class in the Chinese immigrant experience."--Publishers Weekly "[F]ascinating... With meticulous research into the Tapes' daily lives, [Ngai] sheds light on the choices certain family members made to secure a future for themselves and their children."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Ngai paints a vivid picture of an exceptional Chinese American family making its own history while ably weaving the Tape family saga into the history of Chinese exclusion... [This] is an important contribution to the history of Chinese America."--Robert G. Lee, Journal of American History