The Diplomacy of Nationalism : : The Six Companies and China's Policy toward Exclusion /

The Diplomacy of Nationalism : : The Six Companies and China's Policy toward Exclusion / / Yucheng Qin.

This is a striking, original portrait of the Chinese Six Companies (Zhonghua huiguan), or Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, the most prominent support organization for Chinese immigrants in the U.S. in the late nineteenth century. As a federation of "native-place associations" (...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Qin, Yucheng,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. A Meeting of Market Economies The Arrival of the Gold Mountain Guests
  • CHAPTER 2. Continuity and Change The Chinese Huiguan Tradition Crosses the Pacific, 1850s
  • CHAPTER 3. Toward a New Chinese Self-image The Beginning of Modern Chinese Nationalism in California, 1860s
  • CHAPTER 4. Becoming the Chief Target The Six Companies in the 1870s
  • CHAPTER 5. Setting the Tone and Format The Six Companies as Spokesman, 1870-1878
  • CHAPTER 6. "Superseding the Six Companies" The Qing Legation, 1878-1890
  • CHAPTER 7. "As Skilled in Dialectics" The Qing Legation, 1890-1906
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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