LEADER 03749nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910825432303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-8180-74-6 010 $a988-220-843-6 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060928 035 $a(EBL)1187367 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000907041 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11568758 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000907041 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10873913 035 $a(PQKB)10119708 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155729 035 $a(OCoLC)843532261 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25537 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1187367 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10689933 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1187367 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060928 100 $a20130114d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe first Chinese American$b[electronic resource] $ethe remarkable life of Wong Chin Foo /$fScott D. Seligman 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (397 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a988-8139-89-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 347-355) and index. 327 $aThe Arid land of Heathenism (1847-67) -- An abbreviated American education (1868-70) -- The timber from which conspirators are made (1871-72) -- Soiled doves (1873-74) -- A hare-brained, half-crazy man (1873-74) -- America's first Confucian missionary (1874) -- A most delightful dish of chow chow (1875-79) -- A terror to the Chinese community (1879-82) -- The Chinese American (1883) -- Wiping out the stain (1883-85) -- I shall drive him back to his sand lots (1883) -- Pigtails in politics (1884-86) -- Chop Suey (1884-86) -- Why am I a heathen? (1887) -- Fifty cents a pound (1887) -- The Chinese in New York (1887-89) -- I have always been a republican (1888-89) -- I'll cut your head off if you write such things (1888-91) -- The only New Yorker without a country (1891) -- The Chinese equal rights league (1892) -- Is it then a crime to be a chinaman? (1893) -- An ardent worker for justice (1893) -- False starts (1894-95) -- The American liberty party (1896) -- A letter from my friends in America (1894-97) -- Citizenship for Americanized Chinese (1897) -- When the world came to Omaha (1897-98) -- I do not like Chinese ways, nor chinamen any more (1898). 330 $aChinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847-1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term ""Chinese American,"" Wong defended his compatriots against malicious scapegoating and urged them to become Americanized to win their rights. A trailblazer and a born showman who proclaimed himself China's first Confucian missionary to the United States, he founded America's first association of Chinese voters and testified before Congress to 606 $aChinese Americans$vBiography 606 $aCivil rights workers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aChinese American journalists$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aBiographies.$2fast 615 0$aChinese Americans 615 0$aCivil rights workers 615 0$aChinese American journalists 676 $a323.11951073092 686 $aK837.128.8$2clc 686 $aK837.128.8$2clc. 686 $aK837.128.7=43$2clc 700 $aSeligman$b Scott D$01683795 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825432303321 996 $aThe first Chinese American$94054861 997 $aUNINA