The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

Mae Ngai

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Houghton Mifflin, 2010

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The Lucky Ones is a model of historical scholarship. Mae Ngai extracts from limited records a lively and nuanced narrative of the Tape family and vividly illuminates how conditions of inequality fester and spread through human greed and aspiration. The telling tale of the Tapes challenges commonly held myths of immigrant absorption over generations.--Madeline Y Hsu, author of Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and Southern China, 1882-1943Rigorously researched and well written, The Lucky Ones engages scholars as well as the general public.--Gordon H. Chang, Stanford UniversitMae Ngai's book is perfect! The multigenerational story of the Tape family's experience as immigrants, then as Chinese Americans, is well told and richly documented. This jazzlike tale captures the complex, contradictory improvisations of all who come to these shores in search of freedom and fulfillment. Ngai's account of the Tape family's bargains with old and new world denizens is an outstanding teaching text because she highlights the way in which 'Chinese-American' identity, at a critical point in U.S. history, exemplified and constituted 'American' citizenship and 'American' dreaming. Through Ngai's account, students are able to understand how very American the Tape family was and how similar their tale is, even in its difference, to those of other Americans.--Lucas B. Wilson, Mount Holyoke College.…

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Titre
The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
Auteur
Mae Ngai
Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin
Année de publication
2010
État de l'article
Good
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Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0618651160
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780618651160

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