Qing Perceptions of Anti-Chinese Violence in the United States

ISBN-13: 9783639145434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 112 str.

Xiaoyan Zhou

Opis

This book concerns Qing perceptions of Anti-Chineseviolence in the United States. Before the Opium War,the number of overseas Chinese was ignored by theQing government, which labeled them as "deserters" or"political conspirators". The Opium War (1839-1842)resulted in a humiliating treaty, and the opening ofthe Treaty ports in the 1840s quickened the processof Chinese immigration. These increases in the numberof overseas Chinese immigrants led to ill-treatmentand violence in the American West including the 1880Denver Riot and the 1885 Rock Springs Chinesemassacre. After an initial period of ignoringemigration and emigrants, the government of the Qingdynasty was quite concerned about the welfare of itssubjects abroad, but that it was quite new to thegame of international diplomacy in the arena ofnations. Chinas efforts to protect its subjectsabroad were thus stymied by that lack of experience,and by the fact that it did not have much realleverage, either in economic or military power, topersuade other states to extend the same benefits toChinese immigrants as they generally did to Europeanimmigrants.

O autorze

Xiaoyan Zhou is originally from China. Currently, she is a MA
candidate of Nonprofit Administration at John Carroll University.
She obtained a Master of Arts in Modern History of China from
Shanghai Normal University in 2006. She hold a Master of Arts in
history from the University of Wyoming in 2008. Her email is
xiaoyan56@gmail.com.