{"product_id":"the-children-of-chinatown-wendy-rouse-9780807859735","title":"The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families -- and particularly children -- played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas -- from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Rouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807859737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807859735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/02\/2009 pg. 17","brand":"Wendy Rouse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47422707171583,"sku":"9780807859735","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c47f476-9f0f-461d-afed-9b478a27143b.jpg?v=1761527965","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-children-of-chinatown-wendy-rouse-9780807859735","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}