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- Title
Für Clan und Vaterland?
- Authors
Urbansky, Sören
- Abstract
This article explores the shifting loyalties in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the first half of the twentieth century. Bearing the multiple stigmata of being alien, illegal, and poor, Chinese immigrants maintained their trans-Pacific diasporic allegiances. Clan-based loyalty structures and sworn brotherhoods began to erode during the 1900s when the bubonic plague epidemic and the 1906 earthquake hit San Francisco. The Pacific War was another watershed moment that increased opportunities for economic and social inclusion of Chinese immigrants into mainstream American society. In this fight against a common enemy, Chinese Americans proved their loyalty to the country to which their parents had immigrated.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHINATOWN (San Francisco, Calif.); LOYALTY; SOCIAL stigma; CLANS; SOCIAL conditions of immigrants; IMMIGRANTS; CHINESE diaspora; SAN Francisco Earthquake &; Fire, Calif., 1906; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 4, p621
- ISSN
0340-613X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/gege.2016.42.4.621