TY - BOOK ID - 77877412 TI - The children of Chinatown PY - 2009 SN - 1469605376 0807898589 9780807898581 9781469605371 9780807833131 0807833134 9780807859735 0807859737 9798893133523 PB - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Chinese American families KW - Children KW - Chinese American children KW - Chinese Americans KW - Families, Chinese American KW - Families KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Children, Chinese American KW - Chinese KW - Ethnology KW - History. KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) KW - San Francisco Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) KW - 唐人街 (San Francisco, Calif.) KW - Tang ren jie (San Francisco, Calif.) KW - San Francisco County (Calif.) KW - San Francisco KW - San Francisco City & County (Calif.) KW - San Francisco City and County (Calif.) KW - City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) KW - City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) KW - Saint Francisco (Calif.) KW - Yerba Buena (Calif.) KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77877412 AB - Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally ER -