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The lucky ones : one family and the extraordinary invention of Chinese America
Traces three generations of a Chinese-American family from its patriarch's self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush San Francisco to the family's intimate involvement in the 1904 World's Fair.
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Falling leaves return to their roots = Luo Ye Gui Gen : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter
This is a Chinese woman's story of how she suffered appalling emotional deprivation and rejection by her family as a child growing up in China and Hong Kong in the 40s and 50s, and of its consequences in her adult life.
The Integration of Jewish Refugees from Shanghai into Post-World War II San Francisco
Shanghai Jews carved out their own space within the German-speaking Jewish diaspora of over 250,000 refugees from Nazism.7 They constructed a \"microdiaspora,\" grounded in their shared trauma of uprooting, and in experiences and memories of surviving in and emigrating from Shanghai during a catastrophic moment in Jewish history.8 While not a \"home\" in a literal sense, Shanghai served as a nexus for experiencing and remembering their Holocaust survival.9 As white Europeans, they grappled with cultural shocks; as impoverished and stateless residents, they struggled with hyperinflation, scarce goods, and uncertainty without consular protection; as Jews, they were confined in a \"ghetto.\" The end of World War II also empowered African-Americans, Chinese-Americans, and Japanese-Americans to engage in civil rights movements, upending white San Franciscans' expectations of residential segregation.19 The city served as an antithesis to Los Angeles, an explosive social and cultural mecca for German-speaking Jewish intellectual and artist émigrés in the 1930s and for American Jews after 1945.20 By focusing on San Francisco, we add a perspective that nuances the narrative of American Jewish response to the Holocaust.21 The city had a well-integrated Jewish community of 55,000. [...]the intense regional antipathy toward Asians ironically enabled Jews to find acceptance in the city's politics, economy, and society. [...]they were confined to a \"designated area\" between May 1943 and August 1945 by the Japanese.
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Chinese Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter
The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother.
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