Chinese Americans: The Immigrant Experience

by Peter Kwong, Dusanka Miscevic

Fullcolor and blackandwhite photography documents the ChineseAmerican experience, revealing the many ways in which Chinese immigrants and their progeny have navigated the space separating two cultures.

Genres: History

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 18, 2000

Reviews

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

A powerful historical text and over 200 color and black and white photographs document the Chinese American experience. This is a large format book with lots of well-reproduced photographs and period drawings, cartoons and ephemera. The scale helps the viewer really enter into the world of 19th century America. The historical text is very informative. The history leading up to Chinese immigration is well covered, as are the periods of early Chinese immigration and Exclusion. There are separate sections on various employments and the hostility of working-class labor to the Chinese is well documented. Miscevic takes time out from the sweep of history to give us profiles on intriguing individuals. A list of Chinese sites on the internet, an index and photo credits are included. The book has tremendous visual appeal, is full of primary source documents, engages the reader, and has excellent historic text. Miscevic is an Asian language scholar and Kwong, her husband, is a sociology professor, author of several books on Chinese Americans and a co-producer of an award winning video documentary on immigration.

[Areshand · Rating 5 out of 5]

best book about chinese Americans I have ever read.