Machine generated contents note: Introduction: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Chinese in America: The Politics of Polarity 1 -- Susie Lan Cassel --PART I DEFYING STEREOTYPES: THE EARUEST ARRIVALS -- 1. The Social Origins of Early Chinese Immigrants: A Revisionist Perspective 21 -- Haiming Liu -- 2. Chinese Placer Mining in the United States: An Example from American Canyon, Nevada 37 -- David Valentine -- 3. To Inscribe the Self Daily: The Discovery of the Ah Quin Diary 54 -- Susie Lan Cassel --PART II DISCRIMINATION AND EXCLUSION ACROSS AMERICA -- 4. Exploring New Frontiers in Chinese American History: The Anti-Chinese Riot in Milwaukee, 1889 77 -- Victor Jew -- 5. Riot in Unionville, Nevada: A Turning Point 91 -- Elmer R. Rusco -- 6. Telling Their Own Stories: Chinese Canadian Biography as a Historical Genre 106 -- Nancy S. Lee --PART III LIVELIHOOD IN THE NEW WORLD -- 7. The Recurrent Image of the Coolie: Representations of Chinese American Labor in American Periodicals, 1900-1924 124 -- Shirley Sui Ling Tam -- 8. The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Fisheries in California 140 -- Linda Bentz and Robert Schwemmer -- 9. The Seaweed Gatherers on the Central Coast of California 156 -- Dolores K. Young -- 10. The Five Eras of Chinese Medicine in California 174 -- William M. Bowen --PART IV INFLUENCES: FROM OLD WORLD TO NEW WORLD -- 11. The Chinese Empire Reform Association (Baohuanghui) and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott: The Power of a Voluntary Association 195 -- Jane Leung Larson -- 12. Between Two Worlds: The Zhigongtang and Chinese American Funerary Rituals 217 -- Sue Fawn Chung -- 13. Family and Culture in the Control of the Delinquent Chinese Boy in America 239 -- Sheldon X. Zhang -- 14. Unbound Feet: A Metaphor for the Transformation of the Chinese Immigrant Female in Chinese American Literature 260 -- Bonnie Khaw-Posthuma -- 15. Nationalism, Orientalism, and an Unequal Treatise of Ethnography: The Making of The Good Earth 274 -- Zhiwei Xiao -- PART V ESTABLISHING A CHINESE AMERICAN IDENTITY -- 16. The "In Search of Roots" Program: Constructing Identity through Family History Research and a Journey to the Ancestral Land 293 -- Albert Cheng and Him Mark Lai -- 17. Ah Quin: One of San Diego's Founding Fathers 308 -- Murray K. Lee -- 18. Contesting Identities: Youth Rebellion in San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953-1969 329 -- Chiou-ling Yeh -- 19. Mothers' "China Narrative": Recollection and Translation in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife 351 -- Yuan Yuan -- 20. Finding the Right Gesture: Becoming Chinese American in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone 365 -- Vivian Fumiko Chin --PART VI CHINESE AMERICA: SETTLED -- 21. Archaeological Investigations of Life within the Woolen Mills Chinatown, San Jose 381 -- R. Scott Baxter and Rebecca Allen -- 22. The Chinese Immigrants in Baja California: From the Cotton Fields to the City, 1920-1940 399 -- Catalina Veldzquez Morales -- 23. The Urban Pattern of Portland, Oregon's First Chinatown 416 -- marie rose wong -- 24. The Diverse Nature of San Diego's Chinese American Communities 434 -- Ying Zeng.
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