海外排华百年史

章节摘录

插图：United States and attached to it. After the independence in 1867, the Canadian government bought the northwestern territories, acquired British Columbia, and paved the Pacific Railroad to connect the two sidesof the country; however, the economic stagnation and the nosedive of wheat price caused a large counter-migration to the United States. Thou-sands of Canadians were compelled to move southward. It is estimatedthat in the century from 1840 to 1940, about 2,000,000 Canadians emi-grated to America. From 1870 to 1895, about 1,400,000 immigrantsarrived while about 1,907,000 Canadians left, most of them to the UnitedStates, which had worried the Dominion government for a long time.   Canadian immigration policy, thus, did not fully follow the lead ofthe United States to ban Chinese laborers. The Canadian governmenthad been in a dilemma to restrict Chinese laborers by levying a poll taxbecause it had been in urgent need of labor, be that the revenue from thepoll tax could be used to aid the poor. The population drain sloweddown during the years from 1896 to 1914 with about 3,000,000 enteringCanada and 1,300,000 leaving for, in most cases, the United States, i.e.the number of immigrants netted only 95,000 every year.44 Other statis-tics show that in the century between 1851 and 1951, the population ofnatural increase in Canada totaled 10,500,000, and the immigrantstotaled about 7,200,000. The immigrants netted about 700,000 in the100 years, and they thus only accounted for about 6 percent or 7 percentof the increased population.45 A comparison with Chinese populationgrowth will present a clearer picture. We'll take Chinese popula-tion as 1,000,000,000 for simplicity's sake. As the rate of natural growthwas about 2.5 percent, the population increased in China every yearalmost equaled that of Canada in 300 years.

前言

A new immigration act passed the United States Congress in 1965and was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 3.This 1andmark law increased the annual quota for Chinese immigrantsto the United States from 103 to 20,000, marking a new chapter in acentury of anti-Chinese policy in America. This significant act immedi-ately aroused my interest; motivating me to devote attention to thissubject.The first chapter of this book——"American Immigration Policy to-ward China"——was first delivered to Political Review in Taipei and MingPao Monthly in Hong Kong on October 23, 1965——published in theletters to the editors——-only 23 days after the implementation of the thatimmigration act. Such were the beginnings of this volume. Five yearslater, the book was fully developed and was published successively in Hong Kong （1970）, Beijing （1980, 1985） and Taipei （1993）. These foureditions were very well received.Many intellectuals at home and abroad, as well as my friends, have suggested in the past few decades that an English edition should be produced so that overseas Chinese who are non-Chinese speakers and West-ern readers can be well informed of the miserable history of overseas Chinese. However, the project has been delayed until 2005, 40 yearsafter the publication of the book's first chapter.

内容概要

作者：（美国）沈己尧 译者：石毅沈己尧，Shen is a Hakka who was born inPingyuan, Guangdong, in 1926. He studied inShizhen and Meizhou Middle School and later at Zhongshan University, majoring in history. Hetaught in Taiwan after graduation and went to the United States in 1957 and attained his master'sdegree at Columbia University and Rutgers. He has been living in Washington D.C. thereafter. Durin his career, Professor Shen worked with the University of Maryland, the U.S. Library of Congressand the University of the District of Columbia. Hhas constantly visited China for cultural exchange since the 1970s and he often makes comment oIcurrent issues both home and abroad. Books writ ten by Professor I-yao Shen include:A Century of Chinese Exclusion Abroad; Southeast Asia: the Overseas Motherland; A StandardCode of Parliamentary Procedure; Library Modernization in China; Reading of Confucian Analects; Roots in China; A Search for Tibetan Issues, etc.

书籍目录

Preface by I-yao Shen, 2006Preface by I-yao Shen, 1969Preface by Tse-tsung Chow, 1969Presentation of the Translation by Shi YiPreparation of the Publication by Zeng ShaocongChapter IAmerican Immigration Policy toward ChinaChapter IICanadian Immigration Policy toward ChinaChapter IIIAustralian Immigration Policy toward ChinaChapter IVNew Zealand Immigration Policy toward China Chapter VLandmarks and MilestonesChapter VIThe Tragedy of Chinese in VietnamChapter VIIChinese Laborers in South AfricaChapter VIII   Overseas Chinese: Perplexities and ProspectsChapter IXChina's Policies on Overseas Chinese and the Prospects of Chinese AmericansChapter XNew "Pigs" in the New Century——ImmigrantsSmuggled from Fujian ProvinceChapter XIA Review of Sino-US Relations A Century after the Chinese Exclusion ActChapter XIIChinese Americans in the Recent Thirty YearsChapter XIII The Prospects of Chinese Americans in the 21stCentury  .Index

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《海外排华百年史》：Dr. Tse-tsung Chow, Professor of University of Wisconsin, expert ofMay 4th Movement, in his preface to the 1969 edition, believed thatthis book was in the vanguard of overseas Chinese historical studies.This book is the first work on the history of overseas Chinese eversince the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution and the commencement of China's Opening-up to the outside world. It has been a classical work of reference in the study of overseas Chinese in many colleges and universities in China after it was published twice by theChina Social Science Press, Beijing.This book is well accepted by the intelligentsia of overseas Chinesein the United States and other Western countries. The Chinese editioncan be found in the libraries of many outstanding American universi-ties that have collections of Chinese books as well as on the OCLCConnexion.The English edition of A Century of Chinexe Exclusion Abroad istargeted at both overseas Chinese and Western readers who can read no Chinese so that they have an access to know the history of thediscriminated overseas Chinese and the mindset of the Chinese nation today.

作者简介

《海外排华百年史》内容简介：For a whole century, since the Opium War（1839-1842）, the Chinese people suffered imperialistic aggression at home and racial dis-crimination abroad. The United States ofAmerica in its racial discriminatory immigration policy toward China set a bad examplefollowed by Canada, Australia and NewZealand. It passed four different periods: free,prohibitive, restricted and equal. During theseperiods, the four countries clearly excluded theChinese as a very dissimilar race not suitablefor assimilation. This kind of the first nationalact in the United States was the Chinese Ex-clusion Act of 1882. The ensuing four coun-tries witnessed similar immigration policieswith an intention to control the coming of theChinese laborers and to deny their privilege ofapplication for citizenship after they entered.Under the helpless circumstances, most ofthem were pushed into socalled Chinatownsleading miserable lives. It was not until the newU.S. Immigration Act of 1965, giving equalstatus to all countries, did the situation forChinese in the English-speaking Pacific basincountries change. Andthese changes evidentlyaffected the change of the immigrant road map.

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