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Asian tragedies in the Americas : Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories

Title
Asian tragedies in the Americas : Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories / Won K. Yoon.
Author
Yoon, Won K.
Publication
  • Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Description
x, 261 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants' experiences. Won K.Yoon examines such phenomena as Chinese paper (fraudulent) wives and daughters, Korean picture marriages, and Japanese war brides, analyzing the impact of racism and colonialism on East Asian groups and family experiences in the West. --
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • East Asians > America > History > 19th century
  • Chinese > America > History > 19th century
  • Japanese > America > History > 19th century
  • Koreans > America > History > 19th century
  • East Asians
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Koreans
  • America
  • East Asia
  • China
  • Japan
  • Korea
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.
Contents
Western Encounters and Encroachments in East Asia -- A Floating Hell in Devil's Throat -- The Coolie Mart and Bitter Sugar in Cuba -- A One-way Passage to a Peruvian Hell -- Paper Children: The Enticement of Gold Mountain -- Koreans in Thorny Henequen Fields in Yucatan -- A Korean Picture Marriage: The Lure of Hawaii -- Peruvian Japanese in U.S. Relocation Camps -- An Empire Never Defeated: The Japanese in Brazil -- Japanese War Brides Following G.I. Husbands
Call Number
JFE 23-3295
ISBN
  • 179362853X
  • 9781793628534
  • 1793628556
  • 9781793628558
  • 9781793628541 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2020950147
OCLC
1227381593
Author
Yoon, Won K., author.
Title
Asian tragedies in the Americas : Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories / Won K. Yoon.
Publisher
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.
Local Note
NOT HANDLED ON AP-RECENT REPRINT.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781793628541
Research Call Number
JFE 23-3295
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