Boycotting Exclusion
Boycotting Exclusion
The Transpacific Politics of Chinese Sentimentalism
Chapter 4 engages a range of Chinese literary productions, including Lin Shu’s translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the boycott novel The Bitter Society, and Chinese American Edith Maude Eaton’s writings on the North American Chinese. It situates these readings in two overlapping contexts: the 1905 Chinese boycott of U.S. goods protesting the extension of Chinese exclusion laws to Hawaii and the Philippines and the infamous immigration case of United States v. Ju Toy, which denied a citizen of Chinese descent access to courts to challenge immigration admission decisions. By reading Chinese immigration case law and U.S. foreign policy with and against the reform-based fictions of writers of Chinese descent in the U.S. and abroad, chapter 4 illuminates how the growth of U.S. immigration administration and the rise of the modern bureaucratic state reshaped the meaning of race, citizenship, and nation after colonial expansion into the Asia Pacific.
Keywords: Asia Pacific, sentimentalism, immigration law, Edith Maude Eaton, Lin Shu, boycott novel, progressive era, citizenship, U.S. vs. Ju Toy, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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