Book Report

Running head : CHINESE AMERICA

Chinese America : Immigration and Community (Your name (Institute (Instructors name (Subject (Date )CONTEMPORARY CHINESE AMERICA

Contemporary Chinese America is an in-depth sociological anthropologic encounter of Chinese immigrants into America . Min Zhou (the author takes the reader through a step by step analysis of the causes of immigration and the consequences both in China and America . The author seeks to explain China demographics tendencies , gender roles assimilation , culture and culture change . In this investigative study the author describes the hardships most of the immigrants had to endure in

order to secure a niche in the American society . She also explains the role that the immigrants have played in shaping the current America through entrepreneurship , economics , culture studies and also technology

According to the book the 1800 century witnessed a major influx of the Chinese in America who fled from poverty for the promise a more luxurious life in America . They provided affordable labor for the construction of the railroads , others become miners in the goldmines and others settled in San Francisco 's ' China town . Most of the immigrants are said to have come to America illegally and the story illustrates how they endured harsh conditions in the ships that ferried them to America ranging from starvation to communicable diseases that saw majority of them lose their lives

In America , there were numerous anti Chinese riots , their homes were burned and they were threatened with death if they did not leave . The Chinese through hostility from the Americans...