Eurasian mixed identities in the united states china and hong kong 1842 1943 in 1912 mae watkins of ann arbor michigan married her college sweetheart tiam hock franking of amoy china although michigan had no anti miscegenation laws against chinese white intermarriage the wedding caused a local scandal and the couple was compelled to withdraw from the university of michigan. Eurasian mixed identities in the united states china and hong kong 1842 1943 in the second half of the nineteenth century global labor migration trade and overseas study brought china and the united states into close contact leading to new cross cultural encounters that brought mixed race families into being. Eurasian mixed identities in the united states china and hong kong 1842 1943 emma jinhua teng university of california press jul 13 2013 history 352 pages 0 reviews in the second half of the nineteenth century global labor migration trade and overseas study brought china and the united states into close contact leading to new cross cultural encounters that brought mixed . Eurasian mixed identities in the united states china and hong kong 1842 1943 provides a comparative look at how china hong kong and the united states made sense of hybrid identities from 1842 to 1943 and traces the ways thoughts on hybrid identities informed popular understandings in these regions it also presents academic research on the social significance of mixed race identities this book effectively brings together the fields of chinese studies and chinese american studies . How did mixed families negotiate their identities within these societies when interracial marriage was taboo and eurasian often a dirty wordusing the framework of negotiated identity this book examines the range of ideas concerning mixed race that shaped the formation of eurasian identities during the years between 1842 and 1943 it also examines the claims set forth by individual eurasians concerning their own identities comparing cases from the united states china and hong