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From
New Yorker
writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.
A
TIME
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK | A
NEW YORK TIMES
NONFICTION BOOK TO READ THIS SPRING
"A story about aspiration and belonging that is as universal as it is profound.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of
Say Nothing
"A gift to anyone interested in American history. I couldn't stop turning pages."—Charles Yu, author of
Interior Chinatown
"What history should berichly detailed, authoritative, and compelling."—David Grann, author of
The Wager
and
Killers of the Flower Moon
Strangers in the Land
tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called
Gum Shan
––Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. A prolonged economic downturn that idled legions of white workingmen helped create the conditions for what came next: a series of progressively more onerous federal laws aimed at excluding Chinese laborers from the country, marking the first time the United States barred a people based on their race. In a captivating debut, Michael Luo follows the Chinese from these early years to modern times, as they persisted in the face of bigotry and persecution, revealing anew the complications of our multiracial democracy.
Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence, like Gene Tong, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history; of demagogues like Denis Kearney, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s; of the pioneering activist Wong Chin Foo and other leaders of the Chinese community, who pressed their new homeland to live up to its stated ideals. At the book’s heart is a shameful chapter of American history: the brutal driving out of Chinese residents from towns across the American West. The Chinese became the country’s first undocumented immigrants: hounded, counted, suspected, surveilled.
In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as “strangers in the land.” Only in 1965 did America’s gates swing open to people like Luo’s parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the “stranger” label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a
writer’s style and sweep,
is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story.
New Yorker
writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.
A
TIME
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK | A
NEW YORK TIMES
NONFICTION BOOK TO READ THIS SPRING
"A story about aspiration and belonging that is as universal as it is profound.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of
Say Nothing
"A gift to anyone interested in American history. I couldn't stop turning pages."—Charles Yu, author of
Interior Chinatown
"What history should berichly detailed, authoritative, and compelling."—David Grann, author of
The Wager
and
Killers of the Flower Moon
Strangers in the Land
tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called
Gum Shan
––Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. A prolonged economic downturn that idled legions of white workingmen helped create the conditions for what came next: a series of progressively more onerous federal laws aimed at excluding Chinese laborers from the country, marking the first time the United States barred a people based on their race. In a captivating debut, Michael Luo follows the Chinese from these early years to modern times, as they persisted in the face of bigotry and persecution, revealing anew the complications of our multiracial democracy.
Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence, like Gene Tong, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history; of demagogues like Denis Kearney, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s; of the pioneering activist Wong Chin Foo and other leaders of the Chinese community, who pressed their new homeland to live up to its stated ideals. At the book’s heart is a shameful chapter of American history: the brutal driving out of Chinese residents from towns across the American West. The Chinese became the country’s first undocumented immigrants: hounded, counted, suspected, surveilled.
In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as “strangers in the land.” Only in 1965 did America’s gates swing open to people like Luo’s parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the “stranger” label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a
writer’s style and sweep,
is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story.
From
New Yorker
writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.
A
TIME
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK | A
NEW YORK TIMES
NONFICTION BOOK TO READ THIS SPRING
"A story about aspiration and belonging that is as universal as it is profound.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of
Say Nothing
"A gift to anyone interested in American history. I couldn't stop turning pages."—Charles Yu, author of
Interior Chinatown
"What history should berichly detailed, authoritative, and compelling."—David Grann, author of
The Wager
and
Killers of the Flower Moon
Strangers in the Land
tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called
Gum Shan
––Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. A prolonged economic downturn that idled legions of white workingmen helped create the conditions for what came next: a series of progressively more onerous federal laws aimed at excluding Chinese laborers from the country, marking the first time the United States barred a people based on their race. In a captivating debut, Michael Luo follows the Chinese from these early years to modern times, as they persisted in the face of bigotry and persecution, revealing anew the complications of our multiracial democracy.
Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence, like Gene Tong, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history; of demagogues like Denis Kearney, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s; of the pioneering activist Wong Chin Foo and other leaders of the Chinese community, who pressed their new homeland to live up to its stated ideals. At the book’s heart is a shameful chapter of American history: the brutal driving out of Chinese residents from towns across the American West. The Chinese became the country’s first undocumented immigrants: hounded, counted, suspected, surveilled.
In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as “strangers in the land.” Only in 1965 did America’s gates swing open to people like Luo’s parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the “stranger” label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a
writer’s style and sweep,
is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story.
New Yorker
writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.
A
TIME
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK | A
NEW YORK TIMES
NONFICTION BOOK TO READ THIS SPRING
"A story about aspiration and belonging that is as universal as it is profound.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of
Say Nothing
"A gift to anyone interested in American history. I couldn't stop turning pages."—Charles Yu, author of
Interior Chinatown
"What history should berichly detailed, authoritative, and compelling."—David Grann, author of
The Wager
and
Killers of the Flower Moon
Strangers in the Land
tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called
Gum Shan
––Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. A prolonged economic downturn that idled legions of white workingmen helped create the conditions for what came next: a series of progressively more onerous federal laws aimed at excluding Chinese laborers from the country, marking the first time the United States barred a people based on their race. In a captivating debut, Michael Luo follows the Chinese from these early years to modern times, as they persisted in the face of bigotry and persecution, revealing anew the complications of our multiracial democracy.
Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence, like Gene Tong, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history; of demagogues like Denis Kearney, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s; of the pioneering activist Wong Chin Foo and other leaders of the Chinese community, who pressed their new homeland to live up to its stated ideals. At the book’s heart is a shameful chapter of American history: the brutal driving out of Chinese residents from towns across the American West. The Chinese became the country’s first undocumented immigrants: hounded, counted, suspected, surveilled.
In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as “strangers in the land.” Only in 1965 did America’s gates swing open to people like Luo’s parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the “stranger” label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a
writer’s style and sweep,
is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story.
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