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Chinese in southeast Florida, 1900-1992

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Date Issued:
1994
Summary:
Chinese immigrants flocked to the West Coast of the United States when gold was discovered in the mid-1800s. Early Chinese sojourners answered California's call for cheap and reliable laborers. Those Chinese pioneering families who settled in Southeast Florida in the land boom years of the 1920s were not sojourners; they intended to make this country their home. They left behind not only the legacy of the Chinese grocery store tradition, but an educated progeny as well. The absence of a Chinatown facilitated the assimilation process. Yet it did not deter the community's efforts to maintain Chinese culture and tradition, which is achieved partly through the various Chinese language schools and partly through the publications of Chinese newspapers. The Chinese-American community in Southeast Florida is made up of Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and their native-born offspring. Contributing to Florida's rapidly growing Asian-American population, the Chinese make up a dynamic segment of the Sunshine State's new multicultural society.
Title: Chinese in southeast Florida, 1900-1992.
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Name(s): Gordy, Josephine Shih.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Dow, Tsung-I, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1994
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 145 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Chinese immigrants flocked to the West Coast of the United States when gold was discovered in the mid-1800s. Early Chinese sojourners answered California's call for cheap and reliable laborers. Those Chinese pioneering families who settled in Southeast Florida in the land boom years of the 1920s were not sojourners; they intended to make this country their home. They left behind not only the legacy of the Chinese grocery store tradition, but an educated progeny as well. The absence of a Chinatown facilitated the assimilation process. Yet it did not deter the community's efforts to maintain Chinese culture and tradition, which is achieved partly through the various Chinese language schools and partly through the publications of Chinese newspapers. The Chinese-American community in Southeast Florida is made up of Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and their native-born offspring. Contributing to Florida's rapidly growing Asian-American population, the Chinese make up a dynamic segment of the Sunshine State's new multicultural society.
Identifier: 15104 (digitool), FADT15104 (IID), fau:11881 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994.
Subject(s): Chinese Americans--Florida.
Chinese--Florida.
Florida--Ethnic relations.
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