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The Lucky Ones : One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded paperback Edition / Mae M. Ngai.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) : 45 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691155326
  • 9781400845033
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.895 22
LOC classification:
  • F869.S39 N43 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Author's Note -- Tape Family Tree -- Part I. Strivings (1864-1883) -- Part II. School Days (1884-1894) -- Part III. Native Sons and Daughters (1895-1904) -- Part IV. The Interpreter Class (1905-19117) -- Part V. Reinventions (1917-1950) -- Epi logue -- Glossary of Chinese Names -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Appendix. Documents from the Chinese Exclusion Era -- Index
Summary: The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans. Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 case Tape v. Hurley. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how Chinese American brokers essentially invented Chinatown, and so Chinese culture, for American audiences. Finally, The Lucky Ones reveals aspects--timely, haunting, and hopeful--of the lasting legacy of the immigrant experience for all Americans. This expanded edition features a new preface and a selection of historical documents from the Chinese exclusion era that forms the backdrop to the Tape family's story.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Author's Note -- Tape Family Tree -- Part I. Strivings (1864-1883) -- Part II. School Days (1884-1894) -- Part III. Native Sons and Daughters (1895-1904) -- Part IV. The Interpreter Class (1905-19117) -- Part V. Reinventions (1917-1950) -- Epi logue -- Glossary of Chinese Names -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Appendix. Documents from the Chinese Exclusion Era -- Index

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The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans. Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 case Tape v. Hurley. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how Chinese American brokers essentially invented Chinatown, and so Chinese culture, for American audiences. Finally, The Lucky Ones reveals aspects--timely, haunting, and hopeful--of the lasting legacy of the immigrant experience for all Americans. This expanded edition features a new preface and a selection of historical documents from the Chinese exclusion era that forms the backdrop to the Tape family's story.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)