List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation and Terminology; Introduction: Rethinking Chinese Chicago; 1. Searching for Roots of a Transnational Community; 2. Locating Chinatown,1870s-1910s; 3. Operating Transnational Businesses, 1880s-1930s; 4. Living Transnational Lives, 1880s-1930s; 5. Bridging the Two Worlds: Community Organizations, 1870s-1945; 6. Connecting the Two Worlds: Chinese Students and Intellectuals, 1920s-2010s; 7. Diverging and Converging Transnational Communities, 1945-2010s
Epilogue: The "Hollow Center Phenomenon" and the Future of Transnational MigrationNotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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 Chicago, beginning with the arrival of the pioneering Moy brothers in the 1870s and continuing to the present. Ling focuses on how race, transnational migration, and community have defined Chinese in Chicago. Drawing upo
