Out of Chinatown and into the suburbs: Chinese Americans and the politics of cultural citizenship in early cold war America

American Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1067-1090

  Cheng, Cindy I Fen ^a  

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EID: 60949668463     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2007.0003     Document Type: Review

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