Lucky Ones One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded Paperback Edition

Name: Lucky Ones One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded Paperback Edition
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ISBN: 9780691155326

ISBN-10: 0691155321

ISBN-13: 9780691155326

Edition: 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Mae M. Ngai

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The Lucky Onesuncovers 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 caseTape 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…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.80" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.122



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Author's Note


Tape Family Tree


Maps



trivings (1864-1883)



The Lucky One



The First Rescue



Joseph and Mary



School Days (1884-1894)



"That Chinese Girl"



Chinatown's Frontier



Native Sons and Daughters (1895-1904)



Suburban Squire



Two Marriages



The Chinese Village



The Interpreter Class (1905-1917)



Blood and Fire



In Pursuit of Smugglers



Modern Life



The Trial



"Sailors Should Go Ashore"



Reinventions (1917-1950)



The New Daughter-in-Law



Loss



Service


Epilogue


Glossary of Chinese Names


Acknowledgments


Notes


Appendix: Documents from the Chinese Exclusion Era


Index