In Search of Justice: The 1905-1906 Chinese Anti-American Boycott (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
By Guanhua Wang.
Description
How could late Qing China, a country bound largely by parochial ties of family, clan, and native place, produce a nationwide mass movement? Was this popular outburst symptomatic of a domestic "nationalist awakening," as historians of modern China claim, or a result of pressure from Chinese overseas suffering under harsh U.S. immigration laws, as students of American history contend? In considering these vying explanations for the boycott of American products, Wang identifies a coalition of interests that came together to shape the movement's strategy, objectives, and outcome...
ISBN(s)
0674006550, 9780674006553
