An archaeology of Chinese transnationalism
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, tens of thousands of Chinese immigrated to the United States to labor as miners, railroad builders, cooks, farmers, laundry workers, and merchants. My dissertation project uses archaeological methods to understand the transnational linkages that Chinese migrants maintained between their home villages in southern China and the Chinese communities they established in America. Specifically, I examine two diasporically connected areas: two Chinatowns in Southern California, and Wo Hing, a remittance-built village in Gom Benn, Taishan County. Established in 1902, Wo Hing was built in part by residents living in the Riverside Chinatown (1885-1940s) and San Bernardino Chinatown (1878-1940s). I use multiple lines of evidence—artifacts collected from archaeological survey, legacy archaeological collections, architecture, archival documents, genealogies, and oral history interviews—to examine how the transpacific movement of people, objects, and information impacted the diasporic communities and home village.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ng, Laura Wai |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Hodder, Ian |
| Degree committee member | Chang, Gordon H |
| Degree committee member | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Degree committee member | Hodder, Ian |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Laura W. Ng. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/vw834bb8776 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Laura Wai Ng
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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