Greg’s Reviews > Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America > Status Update
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The focus of Louis’s thesis was the growing native-born Chinese population, which in the 1920 census accounted for 30 percent of the total [number in the US]…The culture and the values of their parents collided with that of the country of their birth, a conflict familiar to European immigrants, but the Chinese Americans there was the added complication of race…The result was a kind of psychic homelessness.
— Feb 05, 2026 08:50AM
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Greg
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In the aftermath of the [1906 San Francisco] quake, anti-Chinese zealots celebrated the destruction of Chinatown, believing they could finally cleanse the Chinese stain from the city. The Oakland Enquirer suggested that every town in the region could seize the opportunity to ‘do away with the huddling together of Chinese in districts where it is undesirable.’
— Feb 05, 2026 05:59AM
Greg
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…bullets rained down on the miners, and ‘one by one the Chinamen were shot down like sheep-killing dogs.’ The outlaws chased after a lone survivor and ‘finished him off’ with a rock. Afterward, the white assailants threw the mangled bodies into the river…(Subsequent reports suggested more than thirty Chinese miners were killed. For years, their corpses washed up along the banks of the river.)
— Feb 03, 2026 05:50PM
Greg
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‘Is it not in accordance with fundamental principles of your great nation to admit people from all lands who seek asylum on your shores?’ Angell, the head of the American delegation, had admitted that it was. But principles could be cast aside.
— Jan 25, 2026 05:07PM
Greg
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‘It was the jealousy of laboring men of other nationalities—especially the Irish—that raised all the outcry against the Chinese,’ Lee later wrote. ‘No one would hire an Irishman, German, Englishman or Italian when he could get a Chinese, because our countrymen are so much more honest, industrious, steady, sober and painstaking. Chinese were persecuted, not for their vices, but for their virtues.’
— Jan 23, 2026 07:42AM
Greg
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Perhaps the truest measure of a country’s values can be found in whom it is willing to admit into its family of citizens.
— Jan 11, 2026 05:13AM
