The lucky ones : one family and the extraordinary invention of Chinese America / Mae M. Ngai.
نوع المادة :![نص](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691155326 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
- Tapp family
- Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
- Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 19th century
- Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
- Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Chinese Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- California -- San Francisco
- Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Ethnic identity
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
- F869.S39 C55 2012
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | F869.S39 C55 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011110231 | ||
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | F869.S39 C55 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011119952 |
"Expanded paperback edition with a new preface by the author."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-276) and index.
Tape family tree -- Strivings (1864-1883). The lucky one ; The first rescue ; Joseph and Mary -- School days (1884-1894). "That Chinese girl" ; Chinatown's frontier -- Native sons and daughters (1895-1904). Suburban squire ; Two marriages ; The Chinese village -- The interpreter class (1905-1917). Blood and fire ; In pursuit of smugglers ; Modern life ; The trial ; "Sailors should go ashore" -- Reinventions (1917-1950). The new daughter-in-law ; Loss ; Service.
Traces three generations of a Chinese-American family from its patriarch's self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush San Francisco to the family's intimate involvement in the 1904 World's Fair.