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Article: Zhao, Xiaojian Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965.(Brief Article)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- June 22, 2002
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New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 265 pp., $59.00 cloth, $22.00 paper ISBN 0-8135-3010-5 cloth ISBN 0-8135-3011-3 paper Publication Date: December 2001
The title of this volume works on two levels. Remaking Chinese America refers first to the transformation of Chinese American society during and after World War II caused by the ending of exclusion policies in force for two generations. Immigrant Chinese men long resident in the United States could now become citizens and thanks to the War Brides Act of 1945 and other legislation could bring spouses from China. After years of decline, the population of Chinese Americans shot up during the 1940s (to almost ...