Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community

by Huping Ling

The term "Heartland" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in California, Hawaii, and New York in the recent decades, the Heartland region has emerged as a growing interest of Asian American studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197882629X
• ISBN13: 9781978826298
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"