The Chinese Experience in America

by Shih-shan Henry Tsia and Shih-Shan Henry Tsai

Book Overview

How have the Chinese fared in America? What motivated them to come here in the nineteenth century? How were they received by native Americans? These are some of the questions that Henry Tsai deals with in this important new book. He treats the nineteenth-century immigration experience, the development of early Chinese communities, American exclusion and the difficulties of living in the shadow of exclusion, and the Chinese community in the post-World...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253203872
• ISBN13: 9780253203878
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher