Dreaming Of Gold, Dreaming Of Home: Transnationalism And Migration Between The United States And South China, 18821943 (Asian A,New

Dreaming Of Gold, Dreaming Of Home: Transnationalism And Migration Between The United States And South China, 18821943 (Asian A,New

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This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chineselanguage sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and magazines, supplemented by fieldwork and interviews as well as recent scholarship in Chinese social history, the author presents a much richer depiction than we have had heretofore of the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in Gold Mountain. Long after the gold in California ran out and prejudice confined them to dismal Chinatowns, generations of Chinesemostly men from rural areas of southern Chinacontinued to migrate to the United States in hopes of bettering the familys lot by remitting much of the meager sums they earned as laundrymen, cooks, domestic workers, and Chinatown merchants. Economic hardships and U.S. Exclusion laws extended the immigrants separation from their families for decades, sojourns that in many cases ended only in death. Men lived as bachelors and their wives as widows, parents passed away, and children grew up without ever seeing their fathers faces. Families and village communities had to adapt to survive the stress of longterm, longdistance separation from their primary wageearners. At the same time, men raised in the rural communities of a faltering imperial China had to negotiate encounters with an industrializing, Westerndominated, often hostile world. This history explores the resiliency and flexibility of rural Chinese, qualities that enabled them to preserve their families by living apart from them and to survive the intertwining of their rural world with global systems of race, labor, and capital. The author demonstrates that through migration to dank and narrow enclaves, they came to live, and even to flourish, in a transnational community that persisted despite decades of separation and an oceans width of distance.

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