Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture

Download or read book Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture written by Sucheng Chan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sucheng Chan introduces this valuable new anthology with a commanding discussion of the field of Chinese American studies, in which she examines its history and points the way ahead. Here she and Madeline Y. Hsu have brought together leading-edge scholarship from a new generation of thinkers, as useful for scholars as it is for undergraduate readers. The contributors address a broad range of issues, from the activism of left-wing and Communist Chinese immigrants to the U.S. in the 1920s and early 1930s and humanitarian relief during the Sino-Japanese War to the construction of new Chinese regional identities in New York.