Description
About the Author
Mae Ngai is professor of history and the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
Reviews
"[A] fresh portrait of Chinese immigrants, America and the past century ... deceptively novelistic and evocative... [A]n absorbing story."--Anderson Tepper, New York Times Book Review "Ngai fashions a terrifically readable, compelling work about the little-known middle-class in the Chinese immigrant experience."--Publishers Weekly "[F]ascinating... With meticulous research into the Tapes' daily lives, [Ngai] sheds light on the choices certain family members made to secure a future for themselves and their children."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Ngai paints a vivid picture of an exceptional Chinese American family making its own history while ably weaving the Tape family saga into the history of Chinese exclusion... [This] is an important contribution to the history of Chinese America."--Robert G. Lee, Journal of American History
Book Information
ISBN 9780691155326
Author Mae M. Ngai
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 510g