In Search of Justice: The 1905-1906 Chinese Anti-American Boycott

by Guanhua Wang

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006550
• ISBN13: 9780674006553
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"