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Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her
family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed
the Japanese occupation during World War II, the Communist
Revolution in 1949 and its ensuing Land Reform, the Great Leap
Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform Era. Chen was born
into a subsistence farming family, became a factory worker, and
lived through her village's relocation to make way for economic
development. Her family's story of urbanization is representative
of hundreds of millions of rural Chinese.
Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in
the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps
in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by
noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume uses new
frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of
international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of
contemporary U.S. race relations. These concerns, often ignored in
earlier studies that focused on social and economic aspects of
Asian American communities, challenge some long-held assumptions
about Asian American communities and point to new directions in
Asian American historiography. Historians, students, and teachers
of anthropology, Asian and Asian American Studies, race and ethnic
studies, U.S. immigration history, and American Studies will find
this collection invaluable.
Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her
family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed
the Japanese occupation during World War II, the Communist
Revolution in 1949 and its ensuing Land Reform, the Great Leap
Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform Era. Chen was born
into a subsistence farming family, became a factory worker, and
lived through her village’s relocation to make way for economic
development. Her family’s story of urbanization is representative
of hundreds of millions of rural Chinese.
The 1911 revolution in China sparked debates that politicized and
divided Chinese communities in the United States. People in these
communities affirmed traditional Chinese values and expressed their
visions of a modern China, while nationalist feelings emboldened
them to stand up for their rights as an integral part of American
society. When Japan threatened the China's young republic, the
Chinese response in the United States revealed the limits of
Chinese nationalism and the emergence of a Chinese American
identity. Shehong Chen investigates how Chinese immigrants to the
United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during
the crucial period between 1911 and 1927. Chen focuses on four
essential elements of a distinct Chinese American identity: support
for republicanism over the restoration of monarchy; a wish to
preserve Confucianism and traditional Chinese culture; support for
Christianity, despite a strong anti-Christian movement in China;
and opposition to the Nationalist party's alliance with the Soviet
Union and cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party. Sensitive
and enlightening, Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American
documents how Chinese immigrants survived exclusion and
discrimination, envisioned and maintained Chineseness, and adapted
to American society.
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