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Showcasing the enormous amount of data available on the lives of Chinese people who migrated to the United States and Canada in the nineteenth century, this volume charts new directions by providing fresh, more nuanced approaches to interpreting immigrant life.

Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1. Charting a New Course for Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America —J. Ryan Kennedy and Chelsea Rose
  • 2. Reframing Overseas Chinese Archaeology as Archaeology of the Chinese Diaspora —Douglass E. Ross
  • 3. Towards Engaged and Critical Archaeologies of the Chinese Diaspora —Kelly N. Fong 方少芳
  • 4. Exposing Negative Chinese Terminology and Stereotypes —Priscilla Wegars
  • 5. Interethnic Relationships in 19th-Century Chinatowns: New Perspectives from Archaeological Research and Missionary Women's Writings —Barbara L. Voss
  • 6. An Archaeology of a Chinese Laundryman in the Jim Crow South: The Sam Long Laundry, New Orleans, Louisiana —D. Ryan Gray
  • 7. Burned: The Archaeology of House and Home in Jacksonville, Oregon's Chinese Quarter —Chelsea Rose
  • 8. "Let my Body Be Buried Here": A Long View of Chinese Immigrants in the American West —Adrian Praetzellis and Mary Praetzellis
  • 9. Towards an Historical Archaeology of the Chinese in Montana and A Transnational Lens —Christopher Merritt
  • 10. Between South China and Southern California: the Formation of Transnational Chinese Communities —Laura W. Ng
  • 11. Meat Economies of the Chinese-American West —Charlotte K. Sunserit
  • 12. Bounty from the Sea: Chinese Foundations of the Commercial Shrimp, Squid, and Abalone Fisheries in California —Linda Bentz and Todd J. Braje
  • 13. Flexible Plant Food Practices Among the 19th Century Chinese Migrants to Western North America —Virginia S. Popper
  • 14. Multi-sited Networks: The Underlying Analytical Power of Transnational and Diasporic Approaches —Henry Yu
  • Index

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      Publisher: MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida
      Publication Date: 4/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813066356, 978-0813066356
      ISBN10: 0813066352
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Showcasing the enormous amount of data available on the lives of Chinese people who migrated to the United States and Canada in the nineteenth century, this volume charts new directions by providing fresh, more nuanced approaches to interpreting immigrant life.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Figures
      • List of Tables
      • 1. Charting a New Course for Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America —J. Ryan Kennedy and Chelsea Rose
      • 2. Reframing Overseas Chinese Archaeology as Archaeology of the Chinese Diaspora —Douglass E. Ross
      • 3. Towards Engaged and Critical Archaeologies of the Chinese Diaspora —Kelly N. Fong 方少芳
      • 4. Exposing Negative Chinese Terminology and Stereotypes —Priscilla Wegars
      • 5. Interethnic Relationships in 19th-Century Chinatowns: New Perspectives from Archaeological Research and Missionary Women's Writings —Barbara L. Voss
      • 6. An Archaeology of a Chinese Laundryman in the Jim Crow South: The Sam Long Laundry, New Orleans, Louisiana —D. Ryan Gray
      • 7. Burned: The Archaeology of House and Home in Jacksonville, Oregon's Chinese Quarter —Chelsea Rose
      • 8. "Let my Body Be Buried Here": A Long View of Chinese Immigrants in the American West —Adrian Praetzellis and Mary Praetzellis
      • 9. Towards an Historical Archaeology of the Chinese in Montana and A Transnational Lens —Christopher Merritt
      • 10. Between South China and Southern California: the Formation of Transnational Chinese Communities —Laura W. Ng
      • 11. Meat Economies of the Chinese-American West —Charlotte K. Sunserit
      • 12. Bounty from the Sea: Chinese Foundations of the Commercial Shrimp, Squid, and Abalone Fisheries in California —Linda Bentz and Todd J. Braje
      • 13. Flexible Plant Food Practices Among the 19th Century Chinese Migrants to Western North America —Virginia S. Popper
      • 14. Multi-sited Networks: The Underlying Analytical Power of Transnational and Diasporic Approaches —Henry Yu
      • Index

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