Chinese America: History and Perspectives articles from January 1 2002

Chinese America: History and Perspectives archives from January 1 2002

Introduction.
January 1, 2002... This volume of Chinese America: History and Perspectives explores various dimensions of Overseas Chinese and their relationships to "home." It opens with Edgar Wickberg's overview, "Overseas Chinese: The State of the Field." After defining the...

Overseas Chinese: The state of the field.
January 1, 2002... Author's Note: This paper was originally presented at the Regional China Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 4, 2000. It was prepared quickly without time for reflection. Post-colloquium editing...

California Dreaming: Migration and Dependency.(Reprint)
January 1, 2002... Editor's Note: This article is reprinted by permission of Stanford University Press from Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Migration and Transnationalism between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (2000). Until 1994, a large...

Gold Mountain wives: Rhapsodies in blue.
January 1, 2002... An Essay by Tan Bi'an in Xinning zazhi (1949) Translator's Note: This essay, entitled "Jinshan fu xing" (Rhymes of the Gold Mountain Women), was originally published in the 1949 issue of Xinning zazhi, a magazine published in Taishan...

Fallen leaves' homecoming: Notes on the 1893 Gold Mountain Charity Cemetery in Xinhui.
January 1, 2002... Author's Note: Xinhui, together with three other counties--Kaiping, Enping, and Taishan/Xinning--constitute the so-called Siyi (four counties) regions from which almost 80 percent of the early (pre-1949) Chinese-American population, originated....

A sense of home.
January 1, 2002... As I stepped off the bus, beads of sweat came streaming down my face, as if by command. I was getting used to it fogging my vision, but I wanted to be able to clearly see and remember everything that happened today, the day I visited my...

Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights.
January 1, 2002... Editor's Note: This essay is revised from a keynote address given by the author on June 8, 2001 in San Francisco, at a dinner commemorating the thirty-second anniversary of the civil rights organization Chinese for Affirmative Action. In...