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The diplomacy of nationalism : the Six Companies and China's policy toward exclusion /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Qin, Yucheng (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A meeting of market economies: the arrival of the gold mountain guests
  • Continuity and change: the Chinese Huiguan tradition crosses the Pacific, 1850s
  • Toward a new Chinese self-image: the beginning of modern Chinese nationalism in California, 1860s
  • Becoming the chief target: the six companies in the 1870s
  • Setting the tone and format: the six companies as spokesman, 1870-1878
  • "Superseding the six companies": the Qing legation, 1878-1890
  • "As skilled in dialectics": the Qing legation, 1890-1906.