Chinese Chicago
by Huping Ling
Emigration and immigrationChinese AmericansHistorySocial aspectsTransnationalismUnited states, emigration and immigrationChicago (ill.), historyInternational relations
Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and new York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. less is known about the vibrant Chinese American community that developed at the same time in Chicago. In this sweeping account, Huping Ling offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese in Chicato, beginning with the arrival of the pioneering Moy brothers in the 1870s and continuing to the present.
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