评徐元音《梦金山、梦家园:美国与中国南部之间的跨国主义和移民(1882—1943)》

Review of Dreaming of Gold,Dreaming of Home:Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China,1882-1943 by Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu

Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu,Dreaming of Gold,Dreaming of Home:Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China,1882-1943,Stanford:Stanford University Press,2000,xx+271 pp.徐元音(Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu)女士作为研究跨国移民史与华侨华人史的国际知名华裔学者,现为美国得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的历史学教授,曾在耶鲁大学跟随著名汉学家史景迁(Jonathan Dermot Spence)攻读博士学位。徐女士出生在密苏里州的哥伦比亚,但早年却在中国台湾和中国香港长大,这一经历为其日后研究近现代中美之间的移民史埋下铺垫。