| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940—1965. By Xiaojian Zhao. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. xx, 265 pp. Cloth, $59.00, ISBN 0-8135-3010-5. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-8135-3011-3.)

Remaking Chinese America represents Xiaojian Zhao's attempts to explore the changing elements of the Chinese American community during the post—World War II period. Zhao focuses her study on immigration, family, gender relations, and the development of ethnic identity, drawing on both primary and secondary sources.

Within a chronological and topical structure, the first two chapters deal with the issues of family and gender relations during the exclusion era. In this section, Zhao resonates the claim made in Lucy Salyer's Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law (1995) that after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 the Chinese had resourcefully and tirelessly challenged the discriminatory legislation directed against them. In their struggle for family reunions, Zhao notes, the Chinese presented their cases in the judiciary system, lobbied Congress to secure admission for citizen's wives, and mobilized the community to protect the rights of citizens to bring in their wives.

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