@article{438744, recid = {438744}, author = {Ling, Huping,}, title = {Chinese Chicago race, transnational migration, and community since 1870 / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {Stanford University Press,}, address = {Stanford, Calif. :}, pages = {1 online resource (xviii, 316 p.) :}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Less is known about the vibrant Chinese American community that developed at the same time in Chicago. In this sweeping account, Huping Ling offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese in Chicago, beginning with the arrival of the pioneering Moy brothers in the 1870s and continuing to the present.Ling focuses on how race, transnational migration, and community have defined Chinese in Chicago.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438744}, }