Asian tragedies in the Americas : Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories /

Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century east Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants' experiences. Won K.Yoon examines such phenomena as Chinese pape...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yoon, Won K. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
Subjects:	Chinese > America > History > 19th century. Japanese > America > History > 19th century. Koreans > America > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Western Encounters and Encroachments in East Asia
A Floating Hell in Devil's Throat
The Coolie Mart and Bitter Sugar in Cuba
A One-way Passage to a Peruvian Hell
Paper Children: The Enticement of Gold Mountain
Koreans in Thorny Henequen Fields in Yucatan
A Korean Picture Marriage: The Lure of Hawaii
Peruvian Japanese in U.S. Relocation Camps
An Empire Never Defeated: The Japanese in Brazil
Japanese War Brides Following G.I. Husbands.