Front cover image for Eurasian : mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943

Eurasian : mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943

Emma Teng
In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and ""Eurasian"" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong

eBook, English, 2013
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2013