UNIT 8
Chinese-American Relations: A History
The Nineteenth Century to World WarⅡ
The Nineteenth Century
In the 19th century,
the United States was
a relative newcomer to
the area of international affairs.
Relations with China really began,
not so subtly, in the 19th century
with its discriminatory immigration
policy against China. The Gold Rush
of 1849 in California, the building
of railroads, and the American industrial
revolution of the second half
of the 19th century, attracted
many Chinese immigrants with dreams
of the good life in America.
At that time, it was perceived
by most of the world, that
America was the land of opportunity,
success, and wealth.
As the Chinese population
in the United States grew in size,
pressures to limit the number
of these coming into the United States
became strong. Laws, such as
placing a police tax on
Chinese people in California in 1862
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