Asian tragedies in the Americas : Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stories / Won K. Yoon.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2021Description: 261 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781793628534
- 23 305.89507 Y59a
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Window on Korea | Non-fiction | 305.89507 Y59a (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2021 | 01 | Available | WOK000984 |
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.