Yucheng Qin

The Cultural Clash (eBook, ePUB)

Chinese Traditional Native-Place Sentiment and the Anti-Chinese Movement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a fresh approach to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Drawing on stunning evidence from newspapers and exciting currents in scholarship, Qin presents a new interpretation of the anti-Chinese movement. By examining Chinese native-place tradition in Chinese history, he shows that Chinese native-place sentiment was responsible for almost all important features of Chinese community in the nineteenth-century America. Qin further argues, the main lines along which the anti-Chinese movement ran had been all predetermined in the Chinese native-place rootedness which saw the problem originate and develop. This statement, however, should not cause us to overlook racial prejudice within the movement, which actually received an uninterrupted supply of ammunition from Chinese native-place sentiment and practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761866336
• Artikelnr.: 44763443

Autorenporträt

By Yucheng Qin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1.The Moon is Rounder in the Native Place: Chinese
Native-Place Tradition and Associations 2.Huiguan and Companies: Chinese
Native-Place Associations in California 3.Canton of the West: Chinese
Native-Place Sentiment and the Cantonese Cultural Enclosure in California
4."Cheap Labor" Means "Coolie": Chinese Native-Place Sentiment and the
Economic Charges 5.An Imperium in Imperio: Charges against Chinese
Native-Place Associations 6.Undesirable Members of Society: Social and
Cultural Charges against Chinese Native-Place Sentiment 7.A Stone in the
Stomach of the Body Politic: Chinese Native-Place Sentiment and the
Non-Assimilation Charges 8.The Sound Grew into Thunder: A Cultural Clash Is
Translated into Legislation Conclusion Bibliography