At America's Gates
Subtitle: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807854488
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Immigration & emigration; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Chinese Americans; United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; Law; Legal status, laws, etc.; History: American; China; USA; Emigration & Immigration; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Chinese American; immigration; race relations; Political Science / Civil Rights; Asia - General; Social conditions; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; 19th century; History; Legal status, laws, etc
First sentence: IN 1876, H. N. CLEMENT, a San Francisco lawyer, stood before a California State Senate Committee and sounded the alarm: "The Chinese are upon us.