Recent readings XVI

Diana L. Ahmad, "Opium Smoking, Anti-Chinese Attitudes, and the American Medical Community, 1850-1890," American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 53-68. The American medical community sought to exclude the Chinese from immigrating to the United States because it believed that the Chinese opium smoking habit threatened the moral system of the country and the supposed effects of opium smoking on sexual behaviour that it heightened male and female desire and endangered the reproductive capacity of the country. Combined with socio-economic and racial concerns, in particular reverse Darwinism as a result of bi-racial intercourse between Chinese prostitutes and Anglo-American men, the anti-Chinese campaign resulted in the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.

John Haddad, "The Non-Identical Chinese Twins: Traditional China and Chinese Yankees at the Centennial Exposition of 1876," American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 1, No. 3, Autumn 2000, pp. 51-100. The Americans were divided into two groups; Orientalists who praised the exotic beauty of the objects exhibited at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 and the sophistication of the Chinese attendants, but they were enamored only with Chinese high culture and they showed little interest in the peasant farmers and laborers who constituted the vast majority of the Chinese population; and Progressives who saw the exhibit as proof of China's stubborn refusal to enter the modern world.

To read after the summer:

Michael C. Lazich, "American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Nineteenth-Century China," Journal of World History, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2006), pp. 197-223.

Brian G. Martin, "'In My Heart I Opposed Opium': Opium and the Politics of the Wang Jingwei Government, 1940-45," EJEAS, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003, pp. 365-410.

Koen de Ceuster, "Wholesome Education and Sound Leisure: The YMCA Sports Programme in Colonial Korea," EJEAS, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003, pp. 53-88. inspiring. treaty ports in China and HK then?

Alain Delissen, "Of Flows, Bodies and Shows: Incipient Mass Cultures in Early Twentieth Century East Asia: An Introduction," EJEAS, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-12.

Magnus Fiskesjö, "Rescuing the Empire: Chinese Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century," EJEAS, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2006, pp. 15-44.

Paul W. Harris, "Cultural Imperialism and American Protestant Missionaries: Collaboration and Dependency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century China," The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Aug., 1991), pp. 309-338.

Mitziko Sawada, "Culprits and Gentlemen: Meiji Japan's Restrictions of Emigrants to the United States, 1891-1909," The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Aug., 1991), pp. 339-359.

Jayanta Sengupta, "Nation on a Platter: the Culture and Politics of Food and Cuisine in Colonial Bengal," Modern Asian Studies advance access, 2009.

Margaret Damant, "A Biographical Profile of Queen's Nurses in Britain 1910-1968," Social History of Medicine advance access, 2010.

Rudolf G. Wagner, "The Role of the Foreign Community in the Chinese Public Sphere," The China Quarterly, No. 142 (Jun., 1995), pp. 423-443.

"Forum: History of Emotions," German History, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2010, pp. 67-80.