| Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives Contributor(s): Ling, Huping (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791438635 ISBN-13: 9780791438633 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 305.488 |
| LCCN: 97050217 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Physical Information: 252 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Surviving on the Gold Mountain is the first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years. Relying on archival documents (many of which have never been used), oral history interviews, census data, contemporary newspapers in English and Chinese, and secondary literature, it unearths an unknown page of Chinese American history--the lives of Chinese immigrant women as wives of merchants, farmers, and laborers, as prostitutes, and as students and professionals in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. |