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Asian Tragedies in the Americas
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories
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2021
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Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants’ experiences. Won K.Yoon examines such phenomena as Chinese paper (fraudulent) wives and daughters, Korean picture marriages, and Japanese war brides, analyzing the impact of racism and colonialism on East Asian groups and family experiences in the West.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2853-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2854-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
261
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Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1 Western Encounters and Encroachments in East Asia No access Pages 13 - 40
2 A Floating Hell in Devil’s Throat No access Pages 41 - 60
3 The Coolie Mart and Bitter Sugar in Cuba No access Pages 61 - 82
4 A One-Way Passage to a Peruvian Hell No access Pages 83 - 102
5 Paper Children No access Pages 103 - 130
6 Koreans in Thorny Henequen Fields in Yucatan No access Pages 131 - 156
7 A Korean Picture Marriage No access Pages 157 - 180
8 Peruvian Japanese in US Relocation Camp No access Pages 181 - 202
9 An Empire Never Defeated No access Pages 203 - 222
10 Japanese War Brides Following GI Husbands No access Pages 223 - 244
