The new Chinese America [electronic resource] : class, economy, and social hierarchy / Xiaojian Zhao.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.Description: xiii, 201 pSubject(s):- 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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- E184.C5 Z43123 2010eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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