Chinese American Voices

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Chinese American Voices

Author	: Judy Yung
File Size	: 40,6 Mb
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 06 May 2024
ISBN	: 9780520243095
Pages	: 970 pages

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Chinese American Voices by Judy Yung Book PDF Summary

Offering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs. It provides an insight into immigration, work, family and social life, and the longstanding fight for equality and inclusion.

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