Changes in the Treatment of Chinese Americans

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Changes in the Treatment of Chinese Americans

Yitong Sun 1 , Jiayu Shen 2 , Jiajia Guo 3 , Shuohan Jing 4 , Xinye Yang 5*
  • 1 University of Leeds    
  • 2 Ningbo Xiaoshi High School    
  • 3 Beijing Haidian Foreign Language Experiment School    
  • 4 Xi'an Gaoxin No.1 High School    
  • 5 Queen Mary University of London    
  • *corresponding author yxy0516@hotmail.com
Published on 14 September 2023 | https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/8/20230249
LNEP Vol.8
ISSN (Print): 2753-7056
ISSN (Online): 2753-7048
ISBN (Print): 978-1-915371-97-3
ISBN (Online): 978-1-915371-98-0

Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic is spreading worldwide, especially in the United States. Since the large-scale outbreak of the epidemic in the United States in March 2020, Asian Americans have also faced the secondary threat of "racism" and "Asian hatred" due to the COVID-19 virus. They have become the targets of persistent harassment and attacks by diehard Asian haters. Discriminatory words and deeds against Asian Americans have also spread in American society like the covid-19 virus and become an event sweeping across the United States. The rising anti-Asian incidents in the United States not only focused the attention of American society, but also attracted the world’s attention. At the same time, it is not difficult to recall the anti-Asian situation in the United States at the end of the 19th century. The Opium War broke out in China in 1840. Therefore, many Chinese citizens chose to make a living in the more developed United States. At first, Asian workers were welcomed by industrialists because of their low wages and hard-working characteristics. They were regarded as "exceptional cultures from a distant land". However, with the increasing number of Asian Americans during the gold rush, American citizens and officials gradually changed their attitudes towards Asian Americans. Finally, in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was established to restrict Asians from entering their territory. This article will analyze the changes in Americans' attitudes towards Asian Americans at the end of the 19th century to explore the reasons behind them, and take this opportunity to hopefully shed some light on how we should face racism today during the pandemic.

Keywords:

Asian, American, Chinese

Sun,Y.;Shen,J.;Guo,J.;Jing,S.;Yang,X. (2023). Changes in the Treatment of Chinese Americans. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,8,410-416.
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Sun,Y.;Shen,J.;Guo,J.;Jing,S.;Yang,X. (2023). Changes in the Treatment of Chinese Americans. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,8,410-416.

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References

[1]. Zhang Ying. Liang Qichao's Record of the Prohibition of Chinese Workers [J]. Historical Research, 1984 (4):69.

[2]. Zhang Qingsong. Inside Stories of America's Hundred Years of Exclusion from China [M]. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House,1998.

[3]. Huang Zhihu. The Rise and Fall of the US China Exclusion Act and Sino US Diplomatic Relations [J]World Economic and Political Forum, 2013 (3): 9.

[4]. Cao Qian. The Anti-Chinese Policy of the United States in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Attitude of the Qing Government [J]. Overseas Chinese Historical Studies, 1986 (4).

[5]. Yuan Peng, Lin Yan. On the Origin of the US Policy of Excluding China [J]. Research on Foreign Issues,1996 (3).

[6]. Chen Xiaoyan. Analysis of the root causes of the exclusion of China in modern America [J]. Journal of Hangzhou University,1998 (3): 68.

[7]. Song Li Ruifang. History and Current Situation of Chinese Americans [M]. Beijing: Business Press Museum, 1984: 43 – 54.

[8]. Chen Yifan. History of Chinese Americans [M]. Beijing: World Knowledge Press, 1987.

[9]. Nayan Shah. Contagious Divides,2001:1-16.

[10]. Mink, G. (2019). Old labor and new immigrants in American political development: union, party, and state, 1875-1920. Cornell University Press.

[11]. Erika Lee. The Making of Asian America, 2015 (4):112-115.

[12]. WELLBORN, M. (1912). THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACTS. Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California, 9(1/2), 49–58. https://doi.org/10.2307/41168895

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[14]. Lee, E. (2015). The making of Asian America: A history. Simon and Schuster.

[15]. Miller, S. C. (1969). The unwelcome immigrant: The American image of the Chinese, 1785-1882. University of California Press.

[16]. Gyory, A. (1998). Closing the gate: Race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Univ of North Carolina Press.