Monthly Archives: March 2013

This week I followed up on a couple of footnotes from Hsu’s introduction talking about the historiography of Chinese immigration to the United States. I’m now pretty sure I want to analyze how racism and policies relating to the Chinese … Continue reading →

During class last week, I mentioned that one of the topics I am considering focusing on for my final paper is the way that Chinese-American scholars have interacted with and impacted the historiography about Chinese immigrants. Looking at the early … Continue reading →

This week I continued the strand of historiographical research that I began last week and looked at early approaches to Chinese American studies. This has been a particularly helpful exercise because I had previously only read a few older studies … Continue reading →

In her introduction, Madeline Hsu is very critical of the historiography on Chinese immigration that dominated the field into the 1970s because these works essentially subscribed to assimilation models. They concerned themselves either with “explicating passage of the Exclusion laws … Continue reading →

I recently went through the Journal of Ethnic American History’s 1999 forum on the state of the immigration history field. I was pleased to see Jon Gjerde mention Madeline Hsu’s dissertation as an example of the kind of work that … Continue reading →

This week, I made some progress in two areas as I approached Hsu’s book, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home. Since Hsu has framed her book as a transnational work, I first wanted to acquaint myself with transnational theory in … Continue reading →