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Book Description: Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western states from the Cascades to the Great Plains to provide a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in nineteenth century America. Selecting among a wealth of primary and secondary material, Arif Dirlik has chosen works that enlarge our understanding of the Chinese presence in the West and the development of Chinese cultural formations on the frontier. Together, they illustrate that the U.S. frontier is far from a unified concept. Dirlik points to an 'Eastern' as well as a 'Western' frontier and highlights how cultural development differed significantly from the emerging Chinese American culture on the Pacific Coast. Providing insights not only into frontier society in the United States, but also into U.S. Chinese relations of the time, this volume will be invaluable for all readers interested in China, Western history, and the history of Asian America.

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