Trans-Pacific Interactions: The United States and China, 1880–1950

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Transnational Nationalisms—China and the United States in a Pacific World: An Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
The American Dream and Dreams of China: A Transnational Approach to Chinese American History....Pages 21-41
National Studies and Global Entanglements: The Reenvisioning of China in the Early Twentieth Century....Pages 43-57
China in the World: Constructions of a Chinese Identity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century....Pages 59-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Paper Citizens and Biometrical Identification: Immigration, Nationality, and Belonging in Chinese America during the Exclusion Era....Pages 85-104
Befriending the Yellow Peril: Student Migration and the Warming of American Attitudes toward Chinese, 1905–1950....Pages 105-122
Between the “Mountain of Tang” and the “Adopted Land”: The Chinese American Periodical Press and the Emergence of Chinese American Identities in the Face of Exclusion....Pages 123-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Christian Mission and the Internationalization of China, 1830–1950....Pages 141-160
“Following with Bleeding Footsteps?” American Missions in China and the (Gendered) Critique of Pearl S. Buck....Pages 161-183
The Deserving Heathen: Missionary Ethnography of China and Its American Converts....Pages 185-204
Back Matter....Pages 205-210