China and the Pursuit of America's Destiny
Nineteenth-Century Imagining and Why Immigration Restriction Took So Long
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon H Chang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-169 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2012.0012 |
| OpenAlex | W2051644124 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
Traditional accounts of the exclusion of Chinese from America emphasize the racial, economic, cultural, and political hostility of whites and suggest that exclusion was an inexorable process. This essay, instead, asks why did exclusion legislation actually take a relatively long time to pass through Congress? The question helps re-cast our view of 19 th century Chinese immigration and leads us to appreciate the sentiment that welcomed the arrival of Chinese as part of the broader project of linking America with China for trade, evangelical, and other purposes. The arrival of Chinese in America, in the eyes of important Americans, was part and parcel of the country's grand destiny
China · Destiny (ISS module · Development economics · Economics · Hostility · Immigration · Legislation · Manifest destiny · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |