Early Chinese-American Society as Portrayed in Chinese Letters of the Ah Louis Family of San Luis Obispo, California, usa早期美国华侨社会
美国加州,圣路易斯-奥比 斯波市-黄安家族的中文信件
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6153529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel S Fetzer (0000-0003-1396-811X, Pepperdine University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-215 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Chinese Overseas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1793-0391 • E-ISSN: 1793-2548 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/17932548-12341305 |
| OpenAlex | W2215470924 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This research report presents the English-language translations of several hand-written, Chinese-language letters from the overseas-Chinese Ah Louis family of San Luis Obispo, California. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, when these letters were written, this medium-sized town on the Pacific coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles was home to hundreds of Cantonese immigrants. As unofficial “mayor” of San Luis Obispo’s Chinatown, the Guangdong-born Ah Louis interacted with a wide variety of merchants, employees, friends, family members, and officials. These documents discuss commerce in Chinatown, a legal case about local Chumash Indians, migration between China and the United States, family life in rural Guangdong Province, and labor relations in California, providing a near-unique window into ordinary Chinese-American life around the turn of the twentieth century. Extensive footnotes also place the letters in their historical and cultural context
Archaeology · Asian studies · China · Chinatown · Chinese americans · Context (archaeology · Genealogy · Geography · History of China · Immigration · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Highly cited | No |
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