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Article: Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2004
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Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. By Shehong Chen. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 239. $39.95.)
In recent years, scholars in Asian American history have turned their attention to the concept of transnationalism and how such a phenomenon shaped self-identities, community life, and Asian/non-Asian relationships. Shehong Chen's monograph joins a growing number of works devoted to the probing of the phenomenon and those ties. It is a book that reinforces the understanding of scholars and general readers that Chinese America was a complex world. Chinese Americans were not simply uprooted from their country of origins to become wholly ...