Beyond the narrow gate : the journey of four Chinese women from the Middle Kingdom to Middle America
by
Chang, Leslie
Title
:
Beyond the narrow gate : the journey of four Chinese women from the Middle Kingdom to Middle America
Author
:
Chang, Leslie
Personal Author
:
Chang, Leslie
Publication Information
:
New York : Dutton, ©1999.
Physical Description
:
288 pages ; 23 cm
Series
:
Biographies (Booknotes)
Civil rights, race & gender (Booknotes)
Culture, values & religion (Booknotes)
Abstract
:
The author tells the intertwining stories of her mother and three classmates who, having already left China for Taiwan in the wake of the invasion of the Red Army, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, a time in which the Chinese were very much a minority in America.
Subject Term
:
Chinese American women
Women immigrants
Geographic Term
:
Taipei (Taiwan) -- Biography.
Taipei (Taiwan) -- Biography
Genre
:
Biographies
Electronic Access
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ISBN
:
9780525942573
| Library | Material Type | Call Number | Location |
|---|
| Downtown Library | Archival Material | E184.C5 C445 1999 HCOLL | Hartford History Center |