HIST 358 The Chinese American Experience (Not offered 1998-99)*

This seminar will trace the history of the Chinese immigrant presence in the United States from the 1850s to the present by focusing on the selected topics of labor, the era of immigration exclusion and the Chinese response to exclusion, community life, gender relations, and issues of contemporary Chinese immigration. We will investigate these topics through the reading of primary sources, contemporary scholarship, oral histories, and Chinese American literature. Students will be evaluated on their class participation, their knowledge of the reading and three written assignments: an annotated bibliography, an historiographical essay, and a research paper based in part on primary sources. Enrollment limited. Group A

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