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Asian tragedies in the Americas : Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories / Won K. Yoon.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2021Description: 261 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781793628534
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 305.89507 Y59a
Summary: Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants' experiences. Won K.Yoon examines such phenomena as Chinese paper (fraudulent) wives and daughters, Korean picture marriages, and Japanese war brides, analyzing the impact of racism and colonialism on East Asian groups and family experiences in the West. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.

Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories explores the stories of nineteenth-century East Asian migrants throughout the Americas, tracing the asymmetrical international conditions which shaped migrants' experiences. Won K.Yoon examines such phenomena as Chinese paper (fraudulent) wives and daughters, Korean picture marriages, and Japanese war brides, analyzing the impact of racism and colonialism on East Asian groups and family experiences in the West. -- Provided by publisher.

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