Chinese Americans in the Heartland
Migration, Work, and Community
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:16th Sep '22
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The term “Heartland” in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in California, Hawaii, and New York in the recent decades, the Heartland region has emerged as a growing interest of Asian American studies. Focused on the Heartland cities of Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, this book draws rich evidences from various government records, personal stories and interviews, and media reports, and sheds light on the commonalities and uniqueness of the region, as compared to the Asian American communities on the East and West Coast and Hawaii. Some of the poignant stories such as “the Three Moy Brothers,” “Alla Lee,” and “Save Sam Wah Laundry” told in the book are powerful reflections of Asian American history.
"Analyzing the transnational migration, economic activities, marriages and families, social organizations, and community transformations of Chinese Americans in Chicago and St. Louis, Chinese Americans in the Heartland makes a significant contribution to the literature in Chinese American studies and Asian American studies and shifts the heartland research from the margin closer to the center. This excellent book sets an example for other location-specific historical analyses of Asian America to follow."— Philip Q. Yang, author of Asian Immigration to the United States
"Professor Huping Ling is a pioneering chronicler of the movement and settling of Chinese and other Asian migrants to the US Midwest. Building on her prior books, she lays the foundation for understanding the rapidly emergent regional, racial, and nuanced ethnic racialized politics of the 'American heartland'—a sociological history that coastal-oriented scholars have largely ignored. Chinese Americans in the Heartland is a valuable, meticulously researched transnational history."— John Kuo Wei Tchen, co-editor of Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear
ISBN: 9781978826298
Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 20mm
Weight: 458g
260 pages