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Eurasian mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943

Title: Eurasian [electronic resource] : mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 / Emma Jinhua Teng.
Author: Teng, Emma.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

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1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations.

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Eurasian (Online)

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Eurasian (Online)

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.

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Contents

A Canton Mandarin weds a Connecticut Yankee : Chinese-western intermarriage becomes a "problem" -- Mae Watkins becomes a "real Chinese wife" : marital expatriation, migration, and transracial hybridity -- "A problem for which there is no solution" : the new hybrid brood and the specter of degeneration in New York's Chinatown -- "Productive of good to both sides" : the Eurasian as solution in Chinese utopian visions of racial harmony -- Reversing the sociological lens : putting Sino-American "mixed bloods" on the miscegenation map -- The "peculiar cast" : navigating the American color line in the era of Chinese exclusion -- On not looking Chinese : Chineseness as consent or descent? -- "No gulf between a Chan and a smith amongst us" : Charles Graham Anderson's manifesto for Eurasian unity in interwar Hong Kong -- Coda : Elsie Jane comes home to rest -- Epilogue.

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