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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Xiaojian Zhao. Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940–1965. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 265. Cloth $59.00, paper $22.00.

This volume explores the impact of Chinese female immigration after World War II upon the Chinese-American community. Noting that many more women gained access to the United States as a result of exclusions repeal during the war and the evolving "war brides" legislation following its conclusion, Xiaojian Zhao joins scholars such as Roger Daniels in arguing that this change gradually rendered obsolete both a generations-old bachelor society and a counterproductive preoccupation with China-focused issues. 1

The book's opening two chapters build on the work of others to establish a contextual framework for the original research that follows. From a brief history of the period before 1940, Zhao demonstrates that at least by 1900—and perhaps much sooner—the desire to establish nuclear families had inspired a persistent and carefully conceived effort to challenge discriminatory immigration laws. Then she explains how both gendered and general exclusion prompted Chinese Americans to adopt an immigration strategy that sought to optimize male admissions and relied on women to serve as the links between the Chinese-American community and immigrants' home villages in China (pp. 46–47). Thus, while the dismantling of legislative barriers during the 1940–1965 period owed much of its success to the public efforts of Chinese-American activists, a more covert determination enabled the community to replenish itself despite governmental attempts to cut off the supply of new arrivals. . . .

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