The first Chinese American : the remarkable life of Wong Chin Foo /

Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late 19th century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847-1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term 'Chinese American', Wong defended his co...

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Main Author: Seligman, Scott D. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2013]
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505 0 |a The Arid land of Heathenism (1847-67) -- An abbreviated American education (1868-70) -- The timber from which conspirators are made (1871-72) -- Soiled doves (1873-74) -- A hare-brained, half-crazy man (1873-74) -- America's first Confucian missionary (1874) -- A most delightful dish of chow chow (1875-79) -- A terror to the Chinese community (1879-82) -- The Chinese American (1883) -- Wiping out the stain (1883-85) -- I shall drive him back to his sand lots (1883) -- Pigtails in politics (1884-86) -- Chop Suey (1884-86) -- Why am I a heathen? (1887) -- Fifty cents a pound (1887) -- The Chinese in New York (1887-89) -- I have always been a republican (1888-89) -- I'll cut your head off if you write such things (1888-91) -- The only New Yorker without a country (1891) -- The Chinese equal rights league (1892) -- Is it then a crime to be a chinaman? (1893) -- An ardent worker for justice (1893) -- False starts (1894-95) -- The American liberty party (1896) -- A letter from my friends in America (1894-97) -- Citizenship for Americanized Chinese (1897) -- When the world came to Omaha (1897-98) -- I do not like Chinese ways, nor chinamen any more (1898). 
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