West Meets East:
Depicting the Chinese, 1860 - 1873


SOME FACTS
1850: California imposes Foreign Miner's License Tax
1852: 11,794 Chinese live in California (only 7 are women)
1854: California Supreme Court upholds ban against testimony from Chinese witnesses
1860s: Over 30,000 Chinese enter the U.S; nearly all are men who work as laborers
1871: Anti-Chinese riots in Los Angeles, part of larger pattern of violence
1882: Exclusion Act prohibits Chinese laborers from entering U.S.

OTHER ACCOUNTS
MT's ACCOUNT


SELECTED ILLUSTRATIONS
Beyond the Mississippi
Harper's Weekly Magazine
Harte's Ah Sin (1)
Harte's Ah Sin (2)
Speer's Oldest and Newest Empires
Beadle's Undeveloped West
Roughing It (1)
Roughing It (2)

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