- 304 pages
- English
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About this book
This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a "terrifically readable, compelling" look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience (
Publishers Weekly).
In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand-new social type: middle-class Chinese Americans.
As the Tape family's rags-to-riches story unfolds, their history illuminates that of America. Seven-year-old Mamie Tape attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 Tape v. Hurley case. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how the Chinese American culture brokers essentially invented Chinatown—and so Chinese culture—for American audiences.
Many books have been written about the trials of coming to America, but as Mae Ngai follows the legacy of one family as they integrate into society over the course of generations, she shines a much-needed light on the Asian American experience.
"Mae Ngai tells a story we haven't heard, and very much need. Provocative, groundbreaking, and revelatory, The Lucky Ones is a great read, to boot—as pleasurable as it is enlightening." —Gish Jen
In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand-new social type: middle-class Chinese Americans.
As the Tape family's rags-to-riches story unfolds, their history illuminates that of America. Seven-year-old Mamie Tape attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 Tape v. Hurley case. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how the Chinese American culture brokers essentially invented Chinatown—and so Chinese culture—for American audiences.
Many books have been written about the trials of coming to America, but as Mae Ngai follows the legacy of one family as they integrate into society over the course of generations, she shines a much-needed light on the Asian American experience.
"Mae Ngai tells a story we haven't heard, and very much need. Provocative, groundbreaking, and revelatory, The Lucky Ones is a great read, to boot—as pleasurable as it is enlightening." —Gish Jen
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Agers, Robert, 73
Ah Goon, 239
Ah King, 143–44, 169
Ah Quin, 11, 238, 239
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle), 144
Allen, Clay, 166
America, 17–18
Ames, Martha, 84, 85
Anfenger, Mrs. Joseph, 247–48
Angel Island, 180–84, 238, 27
anti-Chinese/anti-coolie movement, 31–33, 36–38, 43, 48, 88, 126. See also racism
Argonaut, 126
Armstrong, Lucy, 60
Arracan, 6
arson, 36
Arthur, Chester A., 39
assimilation, 35, 39, 40, 45, 48, 53, 81–82, 90–91, 97
Astor, John Jacob, 5
Atkinson and Dallas, 102
Atoy, 16–17
B
Babcock, William, 34
baggage handling, 28–29
baggage law, 74
Bank of California, 12
Baptist mission schools, 83, 121
Barrett, John, 101
Bartlett Place (San Francisco), 59, 90
Bee, Frederick A., 50–51
Berkeley, California, 68, 71–73, 85, 122–23, 124–25, 249
Commercial High School (Berkeley), 73, 154
First Presbyterian Church (Berkeley), 73
First Presbyterian Church (San Francisco), 24
Bertillon measurement, 105, 107
Bigler, John, 9
Biglin, Bernard “Barney,” 28–29, 242
Bishop Scott Academy (Portland), 121
Bissell, William, 72
Blue Mountains (Tape, M.), 31
Bok Kai (Beiyi) Temple (Marysville), 193
bonding, 150–52, 171–72, 174, 177–78, 198
Bonham, Rafael, 164, 165–67, 184
Borthwick, John, 8–9
Boxer Rebellion, 101
Brickmakers Protective Union, 37
brokering/brokers, ix, 30, 74, 144, 204, 223, 224, 226, 229
Brooks Island (Midway Island), 19
brothels, 16, 18, 19, 21, 58, 59, 86, 90. See also prostitution
Brothers, John, 72
bubonic pl...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Tape Family Tree
- Maps
- STRIVINGS
- The Lucky One
- The First Rescue
- Joseph and Mary
- SCHOOL DAYS
- “That Chinese Girl”
- Chinatown’s Frontier
- NATIVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS
- Suburban Squire
- Two Marriages
- The Chinese Village
- THE INTERPRETER CLASS
- Blood and Fire
- Photos
- In Pursuit of Smugglers
- Modern Life
- The Trial
- “Sailors Should Go Ashore”
- REINVENTIONS
- The New Daughter-in-Law
- Loss
- Service
- Epilogue
- Glossary of Chinese Names
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author