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  3. Kazuko Nakane’ s history of the early Japanese immigrants to central California’s Pajaro Valley focuses on the development of fa

Kazuko Nakane’ s history of the early Japanese immigrants to central California’s Pajaro Valley focuses on the development of fa

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问题     Kazuko Nakane’ s history of the early Japanese immigrants to central California’s Pajaro Valley focuses on the development of farming communities there from 1890 to 1940. The Issei(first-generation immigrants)were brought into the Pajaro Valley to raise sugar beets. Like Issei laborers in American cities, Japanese men in rural areas sought employment via the "boss" system. The system comprised three elements: immigrant wage laborers; Issei boardinghouses where laborers stayed; and labor contractors, who gathered workers for a particular job and then negotiated a contract between workers and employer. This same system was originally utilized by the Chinese laborers who had preceded the Japanese. A re- lated institution was the "labor club," which provided job information and negotiated employment contracts and other legal matters, such as the rental of land, for Issei who chose to belong and paid an annual fee to the cooperative for membership.
    When the local sugar beet industry collapsed in 1902, the Issei began to lease land from the valley’ s strawberry farmers. The Japanese provided the labor and the crop was divided between laborers and landowners. The Issei thus moved quickly from wage-labor employment to sharecropping agreements. A limited amount of economic progress was made as some Issei were able to rent or buy farmland directly, while others joined together to form farming corporation. As the Issei began to operate farms, they began to marry and start families, forming an established Japanese American community. Unfortunately, the Issei’s efforts to attain a-gricultural independence were hampered by government restrictions, such as the Alien Land Law of 1913. But immigrants could circumvent such exclusionary laws by leasing or purchasing land in their American-born children’s names.  Nakane’ s case study of one rural Japanese American community provides valuable information about the lives and experiences of the Issei. It is, however, too particularistic. This limitation de- rives from Nakane’ s methodology that of oral history which cannot substitute for a broader theoretical or comparative perspective. Future research might well consider two issues raised by her study: were the Issei of the Pajaro Valley similar to or different from Issei in urban settings, and what variations existed between rural Japanese American communities?
The primary purpose of the passage is to
选项 A、defend a controversial hypothesis presented in a history of early Japanese immigrants to California.
B、dismiss a history of an early Japanese settlement in California as narrow and ill constructed.
C、summarize and critique a history of an early Japanese settlement in California.
D、compare a history of one Japanese American community with studies of Japanese settlements throughout California.
E、examine the differences between Japanese and Chinese immigrants to central California in the 1890’s.
答案C
解析 主要目的：A．捍卫一有争议的设想。不符合总体叙述。B．贬低一段历史。无。C．正确。总结以及批评关于加州早期日本移民的一段历史，即作者对Nakane研究成果的总结和评论。D．比较一历史著作和另一研究。无。E．检测日、中移民的不同。无。
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