Chinese on the American Frontier: : Arif Dirlik: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Chinese on the American Frontier

Description

Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western states-from the Cascades to the Great Plains-to provide a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in nineteenth-century America. Selecting among a wealth of primary and secondary material, Dirlik has chosen works that enlarge our understanding of the Chinese presence in the West and the development of Chinese cultural formations on the frontier. Providing insights not only into frontier society in the United States, but also into U.S.-Chinese relations of the time, this volume will be invaluable for all readers interested in China, Western history, and the history of Asian America.

Part 1 Part I. Introduction
Chapter 2 Mapping the Chinese Presence on the US Frontier
Part 3 Part II. Chinese on the Eastern Frontier
Chapter 4 After the Gold Rush: Chinese Mining in the Far West, 1850-1890
Chapter 5 The Army of Canton in the High Sierra
Part 6 The Southwest (Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas)
Chapter 7 Sojourners and Settlers: The Chinese Experience in Arizona
Chapter 8 Chinese Sojourners in Territorial Prescott
Chapter 9 The Chinese in Nevada: An Historical Survey, 1856-1970
Chapter 10 Virginia City's Chinese Community, 1860-1880
Chapter 11 Chapter 13 from Roughing It
Chapter 12 Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun (1882): A Turning Point in Chinese Legal Relationships in the Trans-Mississippi West
Chapter 13 The Chinese in Texas
Part 14 Part C. The Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho)
Chapter 15 The Chinese in Eastern Oregon, 1860-1890
Chapter 16 Chinese Culture in the Inland Empire
Chapter 17 The Snake River Massacre of Chinese Miners, 1887
Chapter 18 A Chinaman's Chance on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
Chapter 19 Polly Bemis, Legendary Heroine
Chapter 20 Pierce City Incident, 1885-1886
Part 21 Part D. The Rocky Mountains (Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota)
Chapter 22 Utah's Chinatowns: The Development and Decline of Extinct Ethnic Enclaves
Chapter 23 The Pioneer Chinese of Utah
Chapter 24 The Chinese in Gilpin County
Chapter 25 The Chinese in Denver: Their Location and Occupations
Chapter 26 Denver's Anti-Chinese Riot, 1880
Chapter 27 A Chinese Romance,
Chapter 28 Chinese Emigrants in Southwest Wyoming 1868-1885
Chapter 29 David G. Thomas' Memories of the Chinese Riot
Chapter 30 Rock Springs Incident
Chapter 31 Kwangtung to Big Sky: The Chinese in Montana, 1864-1900
Chapter 32 The Heathen Chinese
Chapter 33 Boycott in Butte: Organized Labor and the Chinese Community, 1896-1897
Chapter 34 Deadwood's Chinatown
Chapter 35 Deadwood Gulch: The Last Chinatown

Product details

Published	Nov 17 2003
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	544
ISBN	9780847685332
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

An informative resource for libraries, historical societies, and scholars who focus on western and/or Chinese American history.

Choice Reviews
The reader serves as a convenient source about scholarship on Chinese and American western frontier.

Journal of American Ethnic History
The contributors provide interesting information on how Chinese people lived in the Southwest, Northwest, and Rocky Mountain states during the late 1800s. . . . This text is a useful addition to libraries that specialize in Chinese American studies.

Library Journal