The good immigrants how the yellow peril became the model minority

The good immigrants : how the yellow peril became the model minority / Madeline Y. Hsu.

Author/creator	Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin
Other author/creator	American Council of Learned Societies.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Description	viii, 335 pages ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subject(s)	Chinese Americans--History. Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation. Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity. Racism--Political aspects --United States. Political refugees--United States --History. United States--Ethnic relations --History. United States--Race relations --History. United States--Emigration and immigration --Government policy --History. China--Emigration and immigration --History.

Portion of title	How the yellow peril became the model minorit
Series	Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Contents	Gateways and gates in American immigration history -- "The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient": student exceptions to the racial bar against Chinese, 1872-1925 -- The China Institute in America: advocating for China through educational exchange, 1926-1937 -- "A pressing problem of interracial justice": repealing Chinese exclusion, 1937-1943 -- The wartime transformation of student visitors into refugee citizens, 1943-1955 -- "The best type of Chinese": aid refugee Chinese intellectuals and symbolic refugee relief, 1952-1960 -- "Economic and humanitarian": propaganda and the redemption of Chinese immigrants through refugee relief -- Symbiotic brain drains: immigration reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment act of 1965 -- Conclusion: the American marketplace of brains.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2014039637
ISBN	9780691164021 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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