Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.
Physical Description:
xviii, 316 p.
Series:
Asian America
Asian America.
Contents:
Introduction : rethinking Chinese Chicago -- Searching roots of a transnational community -- Locating Chinatown, 1870s-1910s -- Operating transnational businesses, 1880s-1930s -- Living transnational lives, 1880s-1930s -- Bridging the two worlds : community organizations, 1870s-1945 -- Connecting the two worlds : Chinese students and intellectuals, 1920s-2010s -- Diverging and converging transnational communities, 1945-2010s -- Epilogue : the "hollow center phenomenon" and the future of transnational migration.
