| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Xinyang Wang. Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890–1970. (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspecitves.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2001. Pp. x, 157. Cloth $59.00, paper $22.95.

Much of the scholarship on the Chinese immigrant experience in the United States has focused on immigration in the mid to late nineteenth century and the subsequent anti-Chinese movement, which led to passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. Due to the racial discrimination that was central to this movement and the amount of legislation that was passed against the Chinese on the federal, state, and local levels, Chinese immigrants are often portrayed as victims of racism with little recourse to shape their lives in America. Many previous scholars have attributed their ability to survive this harsh treatment to their ethnic and cultural resilience or their docility in the face of discrimination. In this work, Xinyang Wang attempts to offer a new understanding of the Chinese immigrant experience in New York City by focusing on the role of economic decision making, emphasizing that economic survival and racial discrimination must be analyzed together in order to gain a more complete understanding of why and how Chinese immigrants made the decisions they did. In addition, Wang seeks to broaden our understanding of Chinese immigrants by comparing them to Italian immigrants of the same time period, along with occasional comparisons to the Chinese in San Francisco and other cities. . . .

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