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Book SynopsisCompares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations A Note on Romanization Acknowledgments Prelude Introduction Part One 1. A Canton Mandarin Weds a Connecticut Yankee: Chinese-Western Intermarriage Becomes a "Problem" 2. Mae Watkins Becomes a "Real Chinese Wife": Marital Expatriation, Migration, and Transracial Hybridity Part Two 3. "A Problem for Which There Is No Solution": The New Hybrid Brood and the Specter of Degeneration in New York's Chinatown 4. "Productive of Good to Both Sides": The Eurasian as Solution in Chinese Utopian Visions of Racial Harmony 5. Reversing the Sociological Lens: Putting Sino-American "Mixed Bloods" on the Miscegenation Map Part Three 6. The "Peculiar Cast": Navigating the American Color Line in the Era of Chinese Exclusion 7. On Not Looking Chinese: Chineseness as Consent or Descent? 8. "No Gulf between a Chan and a Smith amongst Us": Charles Graham Anderson's Manifesto for Eurasian Unity in Interwar Hong Kong Coda: Elsie Jane Comes Home to Rest Epilogue Chinese Character Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
