The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded paperback Edition - Mae M. Ngai - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691155326 - May 27, 2012
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The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded paperback Edition Expanded paperback edition

Uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. The author paints a picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type - middle-class Chinese Americans.

360 pages, 45 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 maps.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 27, 2012
ISBN13 9780691155326
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 344
Dimensions 161 × 230 × 21 mm   ·   520 g
Language English  
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