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The new Chinese America class, economy, and social hierarchy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhao, Xiaojian, 1953-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > History.
Chinese Americans > Social conditions.
Chinese Americans > Economic conditions.
Community life > United States > History.
Immigrants > United States > History.
Social classes > United States > History.
Dominance (Psychology) > United States > History.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Social conditions > Ethnic relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rethinking Chinese America
  • Contemporary Chinese American population : the documented and the invisible
  • Drawing lines of class distinctions
  • "Serve the people" : the ethnic economy
  • The "spirit of change" : constructing a regional identity
  • Surviving poverty in an ethnic social hierarchy
  • Conclusion: Inclusion or exclusion?

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