The Good Immigrants : : How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority / / Madeline Y. Hsu.
Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites-intellectuals, businessmen, and students-who gained entrance becaus...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
114 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliterations
- Chapter 1. Gateways and Gates in American Immigration History
- Chapter 2. "The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient" Student Exceptions to the Racial Bar against Chinese, 1872−1925
- Chapter 3. The China Institute in America Advocating for China through Educational Exchange, 1926-1937
- Chapter 4. "A Pressing Problem of Interracial Justice" Repealing Chinese Exclusion, 1937-1943
- Chapter 5. The Wartime Transformation of Student Visitors into Refugee Citizens, 1943-1955
- Chapter 6. "The Best Type of Chinese" Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals and Symbolic Refugee Relief, 1952-1960
- Chapter 7. "Economic and Humanitarian" Propaganda and the Redemption of Chinese Immigrants through Refugee Relief
- Chapter 8. Symbiotic Brain Drains Immigration Reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment Act of 1965
- Chapter 9. Conclusion The American Marketplace of Brains
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index