TY - BOOK AU - Yoon, Won K., TI - Asian tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories SN - 9781793628534 U1 - 305.89507 23 PY - 2021///. CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - East Asians KW - America KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Chinese N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index N2 - 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. -- ER -