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- catalog abstract ""This book is a study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and magazines, supplemented by fieldwork and interviews as well as recent scholarship in Chinese social history, the author presents a much richer depiction than we have had heretofore of the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in"Gold Mountain.""--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11804972.
- catalog coverage "California Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog coverage "China Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog coverage "Taishan Xian (Guangdong Sheng, China) Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog coverage "United States Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This book is a study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and magazines, supplemented by fieldwork and interviews as well as recent scholarship in Chinese social history, the author presents a much richer depiction than we have had heretofore of the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in"Gold Mountain.""--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: An Elastic Community -- 2. California Dreaming: Migration and Dependency -- 3. Slipping Through the Golden Gate: Immigration Under Chinese Exclusion -- 4. Surviving the Gold Mountain Dream: Taishanese American Families -- 5. Magazines as Marketplaces: A Community in Dispersion -- 6. Heroic Returns: The Railroad Empire of Chen Yixi, 1904-1939 -- 7. Conclusion: Unraveling the Bonds of Native Place.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 271 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804738149 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Asian America".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "California Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog spatial "China Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog spatial "Taishan Xian (Guangdong Sheng, China) Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog spatial "United States Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973/.04951 21".
- catalog subject "Chinese Americans Ethnic identity.".
- catalog subject "Chinese Americans History.".
- catalog subject "Chinese Americans Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Chinese Migrations History.".
- catalog subject "E184.O6 H78 2000".
- catalog subject "Nationalism Social aspects China History.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism Social aspects United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: An Elastic Community -- 2. California Dreaming: Migration and Dependency -- 3. Slipping Through the Golden Gate: Immigration Under Chinese Exclusion -- 4. Surviving the Gold Mountain Dream: Taishanese American Families -- 5. Magazines as Marketplaces: A Community in Dispersion -- 6. Heroic Returns: The Railroad Empire of Chen Yixi, 1904-1939 -- 7. Conclusion: Unraveling the Bonds of Native Place.".
- catalog title "Dreaming of gold, dreaming of home : transnationalism and migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 / Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu.".
- catalog type "text".