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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 Chinese-language 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 Chinese—mostly men from rural areas of southern China—continued to migrate to the United States in hopes of bettering the family’s 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 long-term, long-distance separation from their primary wage-earners.At the same time, men raised in the rural communities of a faltering imperial China had to negotiate encounters with an industrializing, Western-dominated, 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 ocean’s width of distance.

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Dreaming of Gold, Dreamin. has been added to your Cart. Recipient of the 2002 Association of Asian American Studies’ book award, Hsu is able to call on her talents as both a Chinese and Asian American historian to weave a transnational analysis of the immigration history of Taishanese in both locations. Journal of Asian Studies. An outstanding book, and exemplar of how to do a transnational study that captures the often globe-spanning histories of migrants out of Asia.

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.

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Journal of Asian American Studies . (2001) 293-295 Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Besides being a wonderful archival historian, Hsu also writes well, and she weaves a tapestry of the larger contexts of historical events in both China and the United States by threading in the poignant examples of individual lives.

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By Madeline Y. Hsu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Recommend this journal. The Journal of Asian Studies.

Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnational-ism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882–1943. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Critical Inquiry 19: 726–751. CrossRefGoogle Scholar. McKee, Delber L. 1986.

transnationalism and migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. by Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu. Published 2000 by Stanford University Press in Stanford, Calif Series. Published 2000 by Stanford University Press in Stanford, Calif. Ethnic identity, Chinese, Chinese Americans, Migrations, Social conditions, Internet Archive Wishlist, Emigration and immigration, Social aspects of Nationalism, Nationalism, History.

Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South . Journal of Asian Studies 59:2 (May 2000): 307-331

Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford University Press, 2000. Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award, 2002. Journal of Asian Studies 59:2 (May 2000): 307-331. University of Illinois Press, 2016.