Ken,
A few suggestions to supplement the excellent suggestions
submitted by Nancy Conner and others: Judy Yung's 1995 _Unbound
Feet_ (Chinese women); Charles McClain's 1993 _Struggle for
Equality_ (Chinese and the law -- also see Lucy Salyer, Peter
Schuck, and Christian Fritz); anything written by Sucheng Chan,
but especially _This Bittersweet Soil_ (Rural and farming Chinese
in California) and a collection of excellent essays on Chinese
America edited by her called _Entry Denied_; Alexander Saxton's
1971 _Indispensable Enemy_ (Irish labor's influence on Chinese
Exclusion) and Sandmeyer's very early (1939) _The Anti-Chinese
Movement in California_ cover some of the history of the
anti-Chinese movement from the anglo perspective. Wm. Creighton
Miller's 1969 _The Unwelcome Immigrant_ also covers some of the
same territory, looking at US images of the China and the Chinese
from the late 18th century through to 1882. Paul Siu's early
(1953) _The Chinese Laundry Man_ is an excellent and moving
depiction of the life of "bachelor sojourners" in Chicago in the
1920s and 30s. Renqiu Yu's 1992(?) _To Save China, To Save
Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance_ is the story of
hand laundry labor movement in New York in the 1930s. Many folks
have written general accounts: Henry Shih-shan Tsai's _The
Chinese Experience in America_ (1986) is worth examining, as well
as his 1983 _China and the Overseas Chinese in the United States_
(not a general account). Sociologist Stanford Lyman in the 1970s
wrote a number of accounts of the structure of Chinese society in
the US. Lyman and Daniels have both written critical reviews on
the historiography of Chinese America. A bit dated now, they are
nonetheless helpful for the pre-1980s literature, which focused a
lot on the Exclusion movement and on the anglo-perspective. As
well, many of the above monographs contain excellent reviews of
the literature. George Peffer has an excellent review of the
literature concerning the immigration of Chinese American women,
"From Under the Sojourner's Shadow" in the Spring 1992 volume of
the Journal of American Ethnic History. The Amerasia Journal is
the journal to check out, and they have a whole issue devoted to
Chinese Exclusion (Volume 9, #1, 1982). Him Mark Lai is an
important researcher and has put together several biblio's and
source material surveys. He has a monograph in Chinese titled
_From Overseas Chinese to Chinese_ (1992) which may or may not
be published in english. Lots more, of course. Hope this helps.
-=Rick=-
Rick McKinney
Department of History 1321 Montclaire Ct.
University of Minnesota and Appleton, WI 54915
mcki0023@gold.tc.umn.edu mcki0023@dataex.com
Tel: 414-830-2226