Research Catalog

Title

America's lost Chinese : the rise and fall of a migrant family dream / Hugo Wong.

Author

Wong, Hugo

Publication

• London : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2023.
• New York, NY : Oxford University Press

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Details

Description

xxii, 325 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (colour); 24 cm

Summary

"From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US this chance for cultural and economic enrichment-but America gave the Chinese new perspectives and connections. They developed a dream of their own.As teenagers, Hugo Wong s great-grandfathers fled poverty in China for California. A decade later, they were excluded from the States. They helped establish a Chinese settlement across the border in Mexico, led by a world-famous dissident-in-exile with visions of a New China overseas. They would be among the Americas first Chinese magnates, meeting with presidents, generals and missionaries, living through astonishing victories and humiliating defeats. The bitterest of all would be the colony s tragic demise amid a violent Mexican revolution, leading to the largest massacre and deportation of Chinese in American history.This epic 100-year drama follows the lives of the author s ancestors, via untouched personal papers. Though no Chinese group had ever gained such influence over a Western population and territory, their home in Mexico would long be forgotten. Today, this family story is reborn: one of nationhood, state racism and a turbulent century; of exile, grit and new ways of belonging"--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Wong family
• 1800-1899
• Chinese > Mexico > History
• Chinese > California > History
• Immigrants > Mexico > History > 19th century
• Immigrants > United States > History > 19th century
• Chinese
• Immigrants
• California
• Mexico
• United States
• China

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: A Chinese colony in America -- Part II: A shattered world.

Call Number

JFE 23-3410

ISBN

• 1805260561
• 9781805260561

OCLC

1375187200

Author

Wong, Hugo, author.

Title

America's lost Chinese : the rise and fall of a migrant family dream / Hugo Wong.

Publisher

London : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2023.

Distributor

New York, NY : Oxford University Press

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

STORY OF CHINESE MIGRANT WORKERS REJECTED BY USA, WHO BUILT COMMUNITY IN MEXICO, 1860-1960.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781805260875

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3410