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Informationen zum Autor Marn J. Cha, Ph.D is a professor of political science at California State University, Fresno, California, where he has taught for forty-one years. He is a recipient of the Global Korea Award (2009) for his historical preservation effort. His research interests include immigration and transnational politics, non-governmental organizations' policy role, and how privatization of government functions transforms the modern states. He is currently president of Central California Korean Historical Society. Klappentext This book tells the Korean immigrants' life stories in California's eight San Joaquin Valley farm communities. It describes how they survived through discrimination and injustices in the early 20th century America, and also details the Korean immigrants' efforts to regain their lost motherland from Japanese colonialism (1910-1945). Zusammenfassung This book tells the Korean immigrants' life stories in California's eight San Joaquin Valley farm communities. It describes how they survived through discrimination and injustices in the early 20th century America! and also details the Korean immigrants' efforts to regain their lost motherland from Japanese colonialism (1910-1945). Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 List of Tables Chapter 2 List of Photographs Chapter 3 Forewords Chapter 4 Preface Chapter 5 Acknowledgments Chapter 6 1.Introduction Chapter 7 2.The Beginnings of Korean Settlement in California's Central Valley (1903-1909) Chapter 8 3.The Dinuba Korean Pioneers (1909-1945) Chapter 9 4.The Reedley Group and the Korean Community (1921-1957) Chapter 10 5.The Korean Left and the Reedley Group (1920-1957) Chapter 11 6.The Koreans in Delano, Willows, and Maxwell, California (1913-1957) Chapter 12 7.The Roles of the State, Social Capital, and Transnationalism Chapter 13 8.Conclusion Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Index
