02498cam a2200265 4500 607502744 TxAuBib 20030506120000.0 021209s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002044858 9780670031238 0670031232 DLC DLC PWmBRO-amh TxAuBib Chang, Iris. The Chinese in America : a narrative history / Iris Chang. First Edition. New York : Viking, 2003. xvi, 496 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-475) and index. The old country: Imperial China in the nineteenth century -- America, a new hope -- "Never Fear, and You Will Be Lucky", journey and arrival in San Francisco -- Gold rushers on Gold Mountain -- Building the transcontinental railroad -- Life on the western frontier -- Spreading across America -- Rumblings of hatred -- Chinese Exclusion Act -- Work and survival in the early twentieth century -- New generation is born -- Chinese America during the Great Depression -- "The Most Important Historical Event of Our Times", World War II -- "A Mass Inquisition", the Cold War, the Chinese Civil War, and McCarthyism -- New arrivals, new lives, the chaotic 1960s -- Taiwanese Americans -- Bamboo curtain rises, Mainlanders and model minorities -- Decade of fear, the 1990s -- High tech vs. low tech -- Uncertain future. In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws, walking the racial tightrope between black and white, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American. 20030506. Chinese Americans History. TXMIT