Asian Tragedies in the Americas

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories

Won K. Yoon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2853-4 (ISBN)

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Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories examines stories of nineteenth-century Asian migrants across the Americas.

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.

Won K. Yoon is retired and was long-time professor of sociology at La Sierra University and Loma Linda University.

Chapter 1: Western Encounters and Encroachments in East Asia

Chapter 2: A Floating Hell in Devil’s Throat

Chapter 3: The Coolie Mart and Bitter Sugar in Cuba

Chapter 4: A One-way Passage to a Peruvian Hell

Chapter 5: Paper Children: The Enticement of Gold Mountain

Chapter 6: Koreans in Thorny Henequen Fields in Yucatan

Chapter 7: A Korean Picture Marriage: The Lure of Hawaii

Chapter 8: Peruvian Japanese in U.S. Relocation Camps

Chapter 9: An Empire Never Defeated: The Japanese in Brazil

Chapter 10: Japanese War Brides Following G.I. Husbands

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	603 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-7936-2853-X / 179362853X
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-2853-4 / 9781793628534
Zustand	Neuware