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2023 Winner of the WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award
2023 Winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize

From the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, when Chinese immigrants made up more than 10 percent of the territory’s population, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the region’s development. But this population, so crucial to Montana’s history, remains underrepresented in historical accounts, and popular attention to the Chinese in Montana tends to focus on sensational elements—exoticizing Chinese Montanans and distancing their lived experiences from our modern understanding. The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to recover the stories of Montana’s Chinese population in their own words and deepen understanding of Chinese experiences in Montana by using a global lens.

Mark T. Johnson has mined several large collections of primary documents left by Chinese pioneers, translated into Engli

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/1/2024
      ISBN13: 9781496240484, 978-1496240484
      ISBN10: 1496240480

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      2023 Winner of the WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award
      2023 Winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize

      From the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, when Chinese immigrants made up more than 10 percent of the territory’s population, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the region’s development. But this population, so crucial to Montana’s history, remains underrepresented in historical accounts, and popular attention to the Chinese in Montana tends to focus on sensational elements—exoticizing Chinese Montanans and distancing their lived experiences from our modern understanding. The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to recover the stories of Montana’s Chinese population in their own words and deepen understanding of Chinese experiences in Montana by using a global lens.

      Mark T. Johnson has mined several large collections of primary documents left by Chinese pioneers, translated into Engli

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