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Book SynopsisThe Cultural Clash presents a fresh approach to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Drawing on stunning evidence from newspapers and exciting currents in scholarship, Qin shows that Chinese native-place sentiment was responsible for almost all important features of Chinese community in the nineteenth-century America.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
