Eurasian Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943

Name: Eurasian Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943
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ISBN: 9780520276277

ISBN-10: 0520276272

ISBN-13: 9780520276277

Edition: 2013

Authors: Emma Jinhua Teng

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the U.S. into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet their stories remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and "Eurasian" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the U.S., China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


A Note on Romanization


Acknowledgments


Prelude


Introduction



Debating Intermarriage


Prologue to Chapter 1. The Reverend Brown Takes Elizabeth Bartlett aboard the Morrison



A Canton Mandarin Weds a Connecticut Yankee: Chinese-Western Intermarriage Becomes a "Problem"


Prologue to Chapter 2. The Merchant with Two Wives



Mae Watkins Becomes a "Real Chinese Wife": Marital Expatriation, Migration, and Transracial Hybridity



Debating Hybridity


Prologue to Chapter 3. Quimbo Appo's Patriotic Gesture



"A Problem for Which There Is No Solution": The New Hybrid Brood and the Specter of Degeneration in New York's Chinatown


Prologue to Chapter 4. Madam Sze: Matriarch of a Eurasian Dynasty



"Productive of Good to Both Sides": The Eurasian as Solution in Chinese Utopian Visions of Racial Harmony


Prologue to Chapter 5. A First Dance across Shanghai's Color Line



Reversing the Sociological Lens: Putting Sino-American "Mixed Bloods" on the Miscegenation Map



Claiming Identities


Prologue to Chapter 6. Harry Hastings: Of Border Crossings and Racial Scrutiny



The "Peculiar Cast": Navigating the American Color Line in the Era of Chinese Exclusion


Prologue to Chapter 7. Adventures of a Devoted Son in His Father's Land



On Not Looking Chinese: Chineseness as Consent or Descent?


Prologue to Chapter 8. Cecile Franking: Of Census Takers and Poets



"No Gulf between a Chan and a Smith amongst Us": Charles Graham Anderson's Manifesto for Eurasian Unity in Interwar Hong Kong


Coda: Elsie Jane Comes Home to Rest


Epilogue


Notes


Glossary of Chinese Personal Names and Terms


Selected Bibliography


Index