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A Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream, Eric Liu
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- Summary
- "From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed may displace America - at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American in this moment? And how does exploring that question alter our notions of just what an American is and will be? In many ways, Chinese Americans today are exemplars of the American Dream: during a crowded century and a half, this community has gone from indentured servitude, second-class status and outright exclusion to economic and social integration and achievement. But this narrative obscures too much: the Chinese Americans still left behind, the erosion of the American Dream in general, the emergence--perhaps--of a Chinese Dream, and how other Americans will look at their countrymen of Chinese descent if China and America ever become adversaries. As Chinese Americans reconcile competing beliefs about what constitutes success, virtue, power, and purpose, they hold a mirror up to their country in a time of deep flux. In searching, often personal essays that range from the meaning of Confucius to the role of Chinese Americans in shaping how we read the Constitution to why he hates the hyphen in "Chinese-American," Eric Liu pieces together a sense of the Chinese American identity in these auspicious years for both countries. He considers his own public career in American media and government; his daughter's efforts to hold and release aspects of her Chinese inheritance; and the still-recent history that made anyone Chinese in America seem foreign and disloyal until proven otherwise. Provocative, often playful but always thoughtful, Liu breaks down his vast subject into bite-sized chunks, along the way providing insights into universal matters: identity, nationalism, family, and more. "--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 230 pages
- Isbn
- 9781610391948
- Label
- A Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream
- Title
- A Chinaman's chance
- Title remainder
- one family's journey and the Chinese American dream
- Statement of responsibility
- Eric Liu
- Title variation
- One family's journey and the Chinese American dream
- Title variation remainder
- one familys journey and the Chinese American dream
- Subject
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- trueChildren of immigrants -- United States
- trueChildren of immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- trueChinese Americans
- trueChinese Americans -- Biography
- Chinese Americans -- Cultural assimilation
- Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity
- Chinese Americans -- Languages
- trueCultural property
- trueIdentity (Philosophical concept)
- Liu, Eric
- trueParent and child -- United States
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- trueChinese in the United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed may displace America - at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American in this moment? And how does exploring that question alter our notions of just what an American is and will be? In many ways, Chinese Americans today are exemplars of the American Dream: during a crowded century and a half, this community has gone from indentured servitude, second-class status and outright exclusion to economic and social integration and achievement. But this narrative obscures too much: the Chinese Americans still left behind, the erosion of the American Dream in general, the emergence--perhaps--of a Chinese Dream, and how other Americans will look at their countrymen of Chinese descent if China and America ever become adversaries. As Chinese Americans reconcile competing beliefs about what constitutes success, virtue, power, and purpose, they hold a mirror up to their country in a time of deep flux. In searching, often personal essays that range from the meaning of Confucius to the role of Chinese Americans in shaping how we read the Constitution to why he hates the hyphen in "Chinese-American," Eric Liu pieces together a sense of the Chinese American identity in these auspicious years for both countries. He considers his own public career in American media and government; his daughter's efforts to hold and release aspects of her Chinese inheritance; and the still-recent history that made anyone Chinese in America seem foreign and disloyal until proven otherwise. Provocative, often playful but always thoughtful, Liu breaks down his vast subject into bite-sized chunks, along the way providing insights into universal matters: identity, nationalism, family, and more. "--
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- Biography type
- autobiography
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- 10323989
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- Liu, Eric
- Dewey number
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- 305.8951073
- B
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Liu, Eric
- Chinese Americans
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- one family's journey and the Chinese American dream
- Label
- A Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream, Eric Liu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index
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- volume
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- rdacarrier
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- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 230 pages
- Isbn
- 9781610391948
- Isbn Type
- (hb)
- Lccn
- 2014007474
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881853093
- Label
- A Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream, Eric Liu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 230 pages
- Isbn
- 9781610391948
- Isbn Type
- (hb)
- Lccn
- 2014007474
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881853093
Subject
- trueChildren of immigrants -- United States
- trueChildren of immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- trueChinese Americans
- trueChinese Americans -- Biography
- Chinese Americans -- Cultural assimilation
- Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity
- Chinese Americans -- Languages
- trueCultural property
- trueIdentity (Philosophical concept)
- Liu, Eric
- trueParent and child -- United States
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- trueChinese in the United States
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