American exodus : second-generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901-1949 /
In the early twentieth century, between one-third and one-half of all native-born Chinese American citizens left the United States for China under the assumption that they would never permanently return to the land of their birth. American Exodus explores this little-known aspect of modern Chinese a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | In the early twentieth century, between one-third and one-half of all native-born Chinese American citizens left the United States for China under the assumption that they would never permanently return to the land of their birth. American Exodus explores this little-known aspect of modern Chinese and American history through the lives of the thousands of Chinese Americans who settled in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta. |
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| Item Description: | "A Philip E. Lilienthal book." |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520302679 0520302672 9780520302686 0520302680 |