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In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally--and how these forces affected residents' relationships with one another and their surroundings. Lee details the significant role Japanese Americans--both immigrants and U.S. born citizens--played in the social and civic life of the city as a means of becoming American. Seattle embraced the idea of cosmopolitanism and boosted its role as a cultural and commercial "Gateway to the Orient" at the same time as it limited the ways in which Asian Americans could participate in the public schools, local art production, civic celebrations, and sports. She also looks at how Japan encouraged the notion of the "gateway" in its participation in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and International Potlach. Claiming the Oriental Gateway thus offers an illuminating study of the "Pacific Era" and trans-Pacific relations in the first four decades of the twentieth century.

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• Full title: Claiming the Oriental Gateway
• Subtitle: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America
• Author: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781439902141
• ID: 05075931
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Weight: 363 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. October 2012

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