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Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

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Author: Michael Luo
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Pages: 560
Publication Date: 04/29/2025
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Product Name: Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
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      Strangers in the Land tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called Gum Shan­––Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. A prolonged economic downturn that idled legions of white workingmen helped create the conditions for what came next: a series of progressively more onerous federal laws aimed at excluding Chinese laborers from the country, marking the first time the United States barred a people based on their race. In a captivating debut, Michael Luo follows the Chinese from these early years to modern times, as they persisted in the face of bigotry and persecution, revealing anew the complications of our multiracial democracy.

      Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence, like Gene Tong, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history; of demagogues like Denis Kearney, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s; of the pioneering activist Wong Chin Foo and other leaders of the Chinese community, who pressed their new homeland to live up to its stated ideals. At the book’s heart is a shameful chapter of American history: the brutal driving out of Chinese residents from towns across the American West. The Chinese became the country’s first undocumented immigrants: hounded, counted, suspected, surveilled.

      In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as “strangers in the land.” Only in 1965 did America’s gates swing open to people like Luo’s parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the “stranger” label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a New Yorker writer’s style and sweep, Strangers in the Land is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story.

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      Author: Michael Luo
      Format: Hardcover
      Pages: 560
      Publication Date: 04/29/2025
      Language: English
      Publisher: Doubleday Books
      Product Name: Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
      ISBN: 9780385548571
      Author: Michael Luo
      Format: Hardcover
      Pages: 560
      Publication Date: 04/29/2025
      Language: English
      Publisher: Doubleday Books
      Product Name: Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
      ISBN: 0385548575

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