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Xinyu Shang
ASAM 100AA
Week 9 Reading Journal
The main theme across all these weekly journals is the lives of
Asian
communities, specifically the Chinese American community in
the United States. The
articles have highlighted the Chinese culture, food, and
cuisines, challenges, and
opportunities for Chinese students in the United States as well
as the issues of Chinese
immigrants and how it has affected most families in the Asian
communities. It is
interesting to understand from the articles readings that in the
recent years, as a result of
the increase in the growth rate of Chinese Americans in the
United States, several ethnic
districts popularly known as Chinatowns have recently emerged
in cities such as Los
Angeles, Houston, New York as well as San Francisco. Chinese
American

businesspeople have also emerged in these towns offering
services like Chinese
education programs, classes, and advice to both the middle-
class and the immigrants.
This is a clear indication of the involvement of the ethnic
economy from the diverse
Chinese American communities.
The journals have also established that a substantial number of
members of the
Chinese population in the United States have experienced a
great deal of upward
mobility. The authors have approached this aspect of the
Chinese community from a
distinct perspective and asses the manner in which such
mobility was made possible. The
readings have also made a clear observation that research
studies, as well as statistics
conducted, indicate that the whole community of the Chinese
population in the US has
been successful at a rapid pace when compared to other ethnic
populations. This success
has been attributed to the internal workings as well as the inner

dynamics of the Chinese
American community. Further, the journals have also outlined
that as a result of
hostilities together with violence the Chinese immigration had
been slowed down and the
immigrants had been forced out of the job market. Before the
Second World War,
ethnicity tended to determine most social relationships more
than class.
More so, the interesting aspect of the journals is that the authors
have used class
evaluation to reveal the other side of the Chinese communities’
experiences apart from
the mobility success that has been achieved. The readings have
included the challenges
of normal day survival of the Chinese students, laborers as well
as entrepreneurs and how
this has affected their position in the social hierarchy. The great
amount of immigrant
workers inflow has allowed the expansion of the Chinese
economy, in which the business
people can be able to maintain their advantage and compete
favorably with the other
ethnic communities in the United States. The Chinese workers

do not have the
mainstream into the job market as a result legal regulations.
Most Chinese students are
being accused of paying other individuals to write their
academic work and this is done in
such a way that it can never be proven through the college
standards. This is the wrong
profiling of the Chinese American students because these
students survive completely on
savings from their parents, with little or nothing left for the
future and hence, they cannot
afford to endanger their education.
Therapeutic Techniques
Behavioral Therapy
Within the field of science, there are many techniques
that may be adopted to help those with disorders. One such
technique is behavioral therapy, which is an approach often
used to assist with mental illness treatment. As with all
research, studies have been conducted to detail the validity and
effectiveness of behavioral therapy. However, behavioral
therapy has controversy surrounding its creation because of the
studies which were conducted prior to its use in the medical
community. Behavior therapy began being studied with animal
test subjects. Researchers were able to evaluate the results
based on the animals they were subjecting to behavioral
therapy. Additionally, behavioral therapy is believed to cause

humans treated by it to be more easily manipulated. Therefore,
there is disagreement among medical providers about the
morality of behavioral therapy. Additionally, it is believed that,
if behavioral therapy is to be used, safeguards must be
established prior to its use (“Behavioral…,” 2019).
Prior to deciding whether behavioral therapy is ethical,
one must understand the origin of its creation. There are varying
reasons as to why scientists wanted to use animals as test
subjects while studying behaviorism. One of those reasons was
to understand how behavioral therapy could benefit humans
(Edwards and Poling, 2011). Researchers were looking to
establish guarantees that living organisms can be conditioned.
Conditioning could be useful for those suffering from mental
illnesses. Aversion therapy and flooding are two such
techniques that researchers studied, proving that organisms can
be taught to detest certain places, experiences, ideas, or objects
by subjecting them to repeatedly to a stimulus to overcome it.
Behavioral therapy researchers believed animal test subjects to
be necessary to benefit humanity; however, necessary does not
necessarily mean ethical (McLeod, 2019). For an action to be
defined as ethical, it should not endanger life. Scientists were
purposely endangering lives as well as the mental and emotional
stability of the animals involved in their research. Therefore, it
is safe to state that animal testing, as it pertained to behavioral
therapy, was unethical. This does not mean that every test
resulted in the harm of animal life; however, harm and death did
occur during many studies. Additionally, behavioral therapy has
been suspected to cause humans to fall victim to manipulation
far easier than they normally would. Manipulation causes the
effects of mental illness to become worse (“Manipulation…,”
2019). Therefore, it would be unethical as it is worsening an
individual’s well-being. To ensure that behavioral therapy does
not breach a morality code, safeguards need to be in place. This
would mean not allowing animal testing for future behaviorism
studies. Also, humans receiving behavioral therapy must not be
manipulated. Bearing this in mind, scientists need to shy away

from animal testing and use technology-based methods or
consenting human subjects. In addition, humans enduring
behavioral therapy need to be fully educated on the methods and
side-effects, along with giving their full, informed consent
(“Informed…,” 2019).
Individuals and Families
Individuals and families influence one another far more often
than many may realize. When exposed to the same group of
people daily, it would be difficult to not be affected by one
another. However, it is not a one-way street. Families influence
individuals just as much, and as often, as individuals influence
the family. Individuals and families have a way of teaching and
shaping one another into the person, or unit, that they are.
Everyone learns from one another and must adjust, as necessary,
for the sake of others. Additionally, values and morals are
exchanged between individuals and families (Ryan, 2019).
Most people know at least one member of their family
or have chosen their own family by the people they surround
themselves with. Humanity is a social species and connecting
with family is a normal part of human society. When a person is
born, they are raised by another human, whether that be a parent
or guardian. The person who raises the child instills within the
child their own sense of right and wrong, ways of life, and
religion,
and other life lessons. A parent or guardian normally finds their
views to be correct and worthy; therefore, they pass it on to
their descendants. This is a natural progression within civilized
society. The parent or parents, along with other family
members, pass on ideas to younger generations. The information
and values they are receiving help to shape them into the
individuals they will become. Likewise, individuals can
influence the rest of their family as well. Once individuals come
of a certain age, they begin developing thoughts for themselves.
They also venture outside the family walls and gain worldly
insight. This provides individuals with the tools to then
influence and shape their families. They can bring fresh ideas to

their families and help them change and adapt (Ryan, 2019).
Individuals and families both understand the importance
of identifying with a sense of morality and manner of living.
Having morals, values, and human experiences set humanity
apart from other species. Personally, I have experienced being
shaped by family members, and in turn, have helped to
positively influence them. My family raised me with the
expectation that I would earn excellent grades and attend a post-
secondary school. Not everyone in my family attended college
and my family instilled within me the importance of extended
education. This idea stuck with me throughout my life.
Therefore, it was a very natural progression when I studied hard
in school, earned good grades, and began applying for colleges.
I never even thought twice about it. Not that it was an easy goal
to accomplish, but I persevered and rose to where I am today.
Being one of a few family members to attend college, I have
been able to bring new ideas back to my family. Attending post-
secondary school provided me with the opportunity to expand
my ways of thinking and then passing that on to my family. This
is a prime example of individuals and families helping to shape
one another (Ryan, 2019).
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Xinyu Shang
ASAM 100AA
This week’s readings were focused on the power of women in

liberation. The
readings mainly focus on the role that the women played in
liberating the Asian
American people from different situations that they were
subjected to. In Becoming an
Integral Part of America, different circumstances of women
fighting for their rights as
well as the rights of their fellow women are presented. Sadie
Lum gives her experience in
revolution. In the 1970s, Asian American women started
showing their awareness on
political matters and the instances of racial, gender and social
class discrimination that
was going on in America and started taking action (Lum, 2006).
Some of them opted into
political activism, community service programs and others into
mainstream politics and
revolution like Sadie Lum. Their believe was that the issues that
they were experiencing
were all as a result of capitalism and they vowed to fight it.
They laid down strategies to
achieve this and they used community services to help the other
Asian American women.
We also find the case of Shui Mak Ka who was among the

women leading a strike to
have their wages increased, and they were able to rally over
15,000 women, through their
union, ILGWU, a rally organized at Columbia park, hence,
pushing forward their agenda
(Ka, 2006). The women, led by Kitty Tsui, are also able to fight
for the position of the
lesbians in the society, people who were viewed as being evil.
These cases in this book
show how the power of women can be harnessed to create a
better environment.
In Politicizing Motherhood, the women are presented to be
fighting for their
rights for the institution of daycare centers to reduce their
straining while working when
they have young children. The garment workers campaign
seriously for these daycare
centers in New York City (Bao, 2003). The campaigns were
made by the women
immigrants, showing that they had power over the things which
were being done to them,
despite being immigrants they still have the power to fight for
their needs and rights. The

campaign also involved reducing the birthrates by these women,
which reduced by about
22.4 per 1000 people in 1970s and by 13.1 in 1980s, as a result
of the better terms
instituted. The meeting which was held by these women in 1981
was a major cause of
revolution which resulted into institution of these daycare
centers for the garment
workers (Bao, 2003).
In One Year After the Sit-In, we are presented with the case of
students who
staged demonstrations, who were the Asian American and
Latinos. The 17 undergraduate
students from Princeton University staged a sit in at Nassau
Hall, complaining to the
administration for failing to institute Asian American and
Latino studies in the institution
(Takeda, 2001). The students vowed to stay in the hall until the
school administration
vowed and committed to institution of these studies in the
University. The movement of
Asian American students was also involved in such
demonstrations in 1990s. This led to

equal rights in the universities and colleges in United States and
the Asia Americans as
well as other black people in the American universities were
treated well (Takeda, 2001).
What I find to be most interesting in this week’s readings is the
power of the
people working as a team and people who are determined to
achieve something. The
history of women in liberation is not written broadly and these
are some of the interesting
scenarios which show the power of women, and how they were
involved in achieving
what people are enjoying today in United States, mainly the
Asian Americans. The
energy and determination of these women is also very
interesting. They do not care about
where they are fighting for their rights but provided that they
have the platform to do so.
From this week’s readings, I understand the importance of
teaming up for a common
goal.

Xinyu Shang
ASAM 100AA
This week’s readings continue to offer more insights into the
relationship between
China and America. I was especially impressed by the video
“The Chinatown Files”
where the narrated experiences offer great insights on the
relationship that existed
between China and America in the 1800-1900s. From the video,
it is evident that the
Chinese were largely looked down upon by the Americans,
especially since Lowe notes
that in the 1800’s there were certain prejudices against the
Chinese, where they were
forced to work for longer hours to make a living, name-calling
and also to spend more
time in school because of their language handicap. As a result
of the massive
discrimination that the Chinese migrants faced in the United
States, they remained close-

knit starting their own schools and failing to assimilate with the
Americans. Nonetheless,
after China set up its own government, the United States
perceived China to be a
communist threat which resulted in the torturing of the Chinese
in Chinatown. It became
more difficult for Chinese Americans to connect with their
families back in China, as
America became more concerned about China’s government.
In the article, “It was not a winnable war” the tension that the
Chinese Americans
faced while in America is once again explored through the story
of Johnny Wong. Once
again America was involved in Vietnam in a bid to stop the
spread of communism.
According to Wong it was difficult taking part in a war where
one was already perceived
to be the enemy. Also, Wong notes that in the end, from his
perspective, America had
little to gain from the war and hence all that it was dosing was
destroying lives and
properties for no apparent reason. The war resulted in multiple
deaths for nothing since

the war according to Wong lacked a formidable basis, especially
on the part of America.
In the end, the war was just but a big loss for America, since the
communists in North
Vietnam ended up signing a peace treaty with South Vietnam.
Hence, America’s greed
and anxiety over communism only served to fuel the war while
in real sense resulting in
more deaths and psychological torture on the army.
Lastly, the article, “Father and Son” also helps to shed light on
the predicaments
that befell on the Chinese Americans following the spread of
the Chinese Communism
ideologies. According to the article, America was in fear of
Communist infiltration in
their country and hence to control that, the immigration
department was on the look-out
for all the Chinese who had illegally immigrated into the United
States. Such resulted in
mass deportations and prosecutions of the Chinese who were
accused of having illegally
immigrated into the United States. For Chuck, it was twice as
worse, since his radical

communism views while working in the United States resulted
in his indictment on
fraudulent claims. Even worse, Chuck was forced to justify
against his son resulted in
both of them being jailed.
Overall, the readings this week offer a very unique account of
the relationship that
existed between China and America in the 19th century. From
the above extracts, it is
evident that America was threatened by China’s communism
ideas to the extent that it
tortured the Chinese-America just so as to limit the infiltration
of the communist ideas.
Xinyu Shang
ASAM 100AA
The articles deeply analyzed the American perception on the
Chinese immigrants
and the type of difficulties that the Chinese Americans residing
in the United States faced

in the early and mid-20 century. This is exhibited from a
number of articles which deeply
analyzed the experience of different Chinese prospective who
resided in America either
for work or educational purposes. The articles use the
experience of Sing Shen, an
immigrant who initially lived in California and Ho, a student
from China who had
different cultural experiences in America.
Apart from the obvious reasons on the racial discrimination by
Americans, the
Native Americans cited a number of reasons for their
resentment towards the Chinese
immigrants. The relationship between the United States and the
Chinese government is
also analyzed and how the two parties stood to gain from the
relationship. However, the
articles indicates the continued growth in the number of the
Asian communities in
America which eventually made the two cultures interrelate thus
reducing the oppressive
laws as well as aggressiveness against people from China as
compared to the Japanese

citizens by mainly analyzing the impact of the impacts of the
Americans’ increasing
interest in Asia.
America is depicted as being hypocritical when it came to the
support it claimed
to provide the Chinese whereby Sing Shen used the votes casted
to determine the
eligibility of him, as a Chinese immigrant to buy property in
San Francisco whereby they
terribly failed. Some of the reasons cited by the Americans
include the possibility of the
prices of property failing as a result of the immigrants’
purchase of the property,
unassimilable nature of the Chinese and African American
races, and inferiority to the
white race.
However, Chinese immigrants stood to benefit more that the
American natives
since there were better schools in America which is evidenced
by the immigration of
Chinese Students to study MIT for example Ho. However, as it
became prevalent with

the course of the Asian- American inhabitants wars, the
relationship between China and
America was mainly driven by the communism vs capitalist
wars that were intense
between 1943 and 2000. The leniency that was observed in
America regarding the
immigration rights and freedom of the Chinese showed that
America wanted to leverage
on advantages that the immigrants had by being allowed to enter
America so as to create
allies that had economic potential in Asia so as to gain some
competitive advantage in a
region that had highly been influenced by the Soviets
Communism rules.
Another aspect that showed that Americans were superior in the
relationship with
the Chinese was the fact that they managed to effectively
enforce their culture on the
Chinese people. This is exhibited in Ho’s narrative where he
describes the fact that he
had to go through a number of culturally related behaviors of
the Americans for example
how to deal with the American culture meaning that he has to
learn a thing or two about

the American Culture such as the language which he was forced
to learn to use since he
was going to be studying in America whereby English is the
official language.
The main approach that was used was the control of the
government through its
treasury in terms of the Chinas economy where the war
predetermined the value of the
currency in that country. This was exhibited when the American
soldiers started to
aggressively push for their removal from the country. The
perceived insecurity eventually
led to the economic downfall of the country where prices for
property which included
land and houses started to depreciate significantly. Ho’s brother
clearly explains this
when asking for his money from his brother who was studying
in the US.
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ASAM 100AA
When the United States entered the war, numerous Chinese
Americans found a way to
express their help for the American war exertion and to isolate
themselves from the
Japanese and Japanese Americans. Inside days after the assault
on Pearl Harbor, the
Chinese department in San Francisco, with the help of different
Chinese American people
group associations, gave distinguishing proof cards to Chinese
foreigners and Chinese
Americans to confirm their ethnicity. Before long, catches were
accessible, for ten
pennies every, which proclaimed "I'm Chinese," or essentially
"China"; different catches
portrayed American and Chinese banners crossed in solidarity.
The editors of the Chinese
Press encouraged its peruses to convey a type of ID to separate
themselves from
Japanese: "For your own assurance, the specialists MUST
recognize you from the
Japanese, a people at war and a foe of China and the United
States."I2 Despite the

utilization of such fastens, Chinese Americans wound up
oftentimes confused with
Japanese Americans.
As the Chinese populace scattered all through the United States
in the early piece
of the twentieth century, networks created with orderly
business, political, social, and
instructive organizations along the Pacific Coast, in the
Midwest, along the Eastern
seaboard, and all through the South. Between Work' Wars I and
II, a noteworthy number
of Chinese settled in country Mississippi and Arkansas working
grocery stores that
served dark clients. As family life flourished, guardians turned
out to be con-risen about
the Chinese training of their youngsters. 939, the Chinese
people group in Arkansas,
comprising of roughly four occupants, set up a Chinese
language school in McGehee in
the southeast corner of the state. The accompanying history of
this Chinese school is
taken from the an. mud report of the Arkansas Chinese

Association, which was
established in 1943 to genius bit the welfare of the
neighborhood Chinese and to help
with the war exertion in China. Al, however fleeting—McGehee
Chinese School shut
inside two years on account of World War If—its reality
exhibits the solid responsibility
that Chinese outsiders have consistently needed to impart
Chinese culture in the people to
come.
And later, the cal; between Fong and Li is discussed. Fong told
that his father
died when he was fourteen, and then his uncle raised him,
worked in a bakery, and raised
money to get back to the home town. And further told what
happened at the bakery. Then
he further told upon asking that he was in boy scot in 1942, and
his job was crowd
control and crowd management, and further, he described the
ceremony and told that the
flag was huge and the people did a great charity. Further, he
added that there were no
windows in the bungalows, and it was best to cure the TB. Fong
told about his past and

said he has been a chicken and never got involved in the fights.
He told the incident of his
childhood that he was called out by Chinese and Americans for
a fight. When he reached
the ground, he heard the sirens of the police car, and the matter
didn’t get ugly.
Then there is the Oral history of Eloise Fong. When she was
asked about her
guardians, she told about her grandpa that he used to work as a
sea merchant and opened
a laundry shop later. Then she later added that she wanted to
learn, but grandpa could not
give her much time, and then he decided to give the 1st floor on
rent to a teacher, but it
could also not help, then he decided to send her to the boarding
school. Later she
described her brothers and how they bought a house in Oakland
and got it built.
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ASAM 100AA

The Chinese foreigners were from poor families like the case of
Helen Hong
Wong and Gong Yuen Tim. There no many opportunities for
most Chinese immigrants in
the U.S. In narration it was observed that the Chinese were
discriminated like the law that
prevented Chinese from bringing their wives and laundrymen to
pay a license fee and a
security bond. However, the situation for women in the U.S was
better than in China. The
court system helped Chinese immigrants to get their rights.As it
still referred to today
American is totally a land of opportunity as the immigrant were
able to improve their
lives from poor to average people. The Chinese-Americans born
in the U.S had a good
experience and got the opportunity to get formal education but
most of the Chinese-
Americans did not believe in formal education for girls.
Chinese-American is not able to
integrate into the American community and get good jobs like
Parde Lowe and Anna

May Wong.
By 1920 children born in the U.S accounted for 10% of the
Chinese-American
community. Those children were significant in the socialization
of Chinese due to their
ability to socialize like learning the English language. The
children believed that they are
and should be treated like Americans for them been an
American is having particular
rights like owning property and voting. However the children
were discriminated at
young age and made to feel that they were not part of the
community. They were forced
to attend segregated schools and not sit in certain areas in the
theatre. As a result those
children had identity confusion. On the hand the Chinese
culture seems to be harsh on the
children especially girls like been forbidden to were slippers
and attend school. As a
result the children are seen to have a preference for their
American identity because it
allows them to express themselves freely.

The chapter gives an overview of the struggle of Chinese-
Americans. Most of the
Native Americans did not like the presence of Chinese in their
community. There is a
network of smugger who helped the Chinese to move into
America undetected. Those
organizations were transnational and helped to link political
allies, families, and people
from the same location. Those organizations were used by
Chinesepoliticians who
wanted support. It was observed that were strong transnational
organizations that united
Chinese people who were living abroad. That organization was
instrumental in making
changes in the political environment of China. Most of them had
emerged in China as the
Chinese National League and later established affiliates in the
world. The narration
reviewed how the people wanted to go to America risking their
lives to be carried by
unsafe vessels.
The passing of the Chinese exclusion law was the most
discriminative system that
was put on the Chinese-American people. It has made Chinese

turn to the court for justice
particular in North California that has the highest population of
the Chinese-Americans.
About 85% 90% of petitions were made in favor of the Chinese
population. The most
remarkable challenges on the Chinese exclusion act include the
admission of Lay Yuen
as a citizen in 1904, Jew Guan Yin in 1892 who was allowed
entry in 1892 and Jew Yee
Lin was declared a citizen in 1904. For a majority of
administrative officials that court
has made it impossible to effectively enforce the exclusion law.
The court has helped to
remove some discriminative immigration laws that were passed.
Xinyu Shang
ASAM 100AA
This paper focuses on the analysis of all the readings of this
week. The topic of

the readings is on the Chinese history. We have covered tape
family tree, inside and
Outside Chinatown: Chinese Elites in Exclusion Era California,
modern life, detention in
the wooden building (1910), leave from the life history of a
Chinese immigration (1936),
suburban squire, and two marriage. I have learned all these
topics in detail, which are
related to the Chinese history. There are many treasures and key
points in the Chinese
history that makes it unique and totally different from the
remaining world history. The
culture, tradition, food, family system, lifestyle, etc., are all
makes it interesting for the
people inside or outside the country.
Joseph C. Tape and Mary McGladery his wife were born in
China and reached
California in the years 1869 and 1868, individually. Mary
McGladery was an orphan
(about a left girl) of the Shanghai region. In the life of eleven
years, she was taken to the
country San Francisco and settled the initial five months in the
area named Chinatown ere
remaining held up next to the Women Relief Society and

Protection, where she studied to
obtain American practices and address English. Founded in the
year 1853 and included
the coming year, that Society operated a place for abandoned or
poor ladies grown 2 to
14 and guys aged 2 to 10. In that place, placed on Franklin
Street among Geary and Post,
the kids were given for till stable places in Christian houses
were obtained to them.
Chinese Elites in Exclusion Era California important into
consideration ethnic and
race relationships among the Chinese, the Americans and
European Americans
throughout the early 20th and late 19th of the survival regarding
the Exclusion Act of the
year 1882 which established several state dimension in
California. The article has
confirmed the opportunities of cultural formation between
various communities in points
of wide race prejudice and extensive hatred. The study
concentrates on a couple of jobs
by that period the ministers and the gardeners who frequently
obtained reasonable to

counter difficulties that were posed through geographic gender,
race, and locations. The
two jobs were the extremely detailed aristocracies and were
released of the Exclusion Act
of the year 1882 in the California State. That gave them to be
significant developments in
this interethnic discussion in the West. The Chinese were
extremely populated in Los
Angeles and San Francisco towns. Among the start of the 20th
century and closing period
of the 19th century, millions of individuals, in amounts that
have not been observed
because it happened to the U.S in pursuance of a more
immeasurable, more independent
life.
At the easterly shore, most famous of them pressed bodies were
joined through
the Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty. At the western shore,
among the years 1910 and
1940, the most maximum was reached through the wooden
churches of Angel Island.
Those emigrants were New Zealanders and Australians,
Russians, Central and South

Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, and particularly, Asians.
Where, through this time of
high immigration, people would engage with a response pretty
unlike that presented to
emigrants of European at the East Coast. The goals for this
acquisition, including the
account of that campaign, as common, hold their origins in
history.
50 years before, approximately the midpoint of the nineteenth
century, at the
distant westward boundary from the continental U. S, emigrants
of Province Guangdong
in south China started coming, leaving off land hit through both
man-made and natural
hazards and falling agricultural economics. In conclusion, the
objections of the
population and government leaders concerning the protection of
the Station of
Immigration confirmed valid while the Administration Building
heated to the territory in
August 1940. Every candidate was relocated to a regional office
near November.

Xinyu Shang
ASAM 100AA
The readings this week offer a critical and interesting account
on Chinese
immigrants as well as the relationship between China and
America. In the reading,
“Reminiscences of a Pioneer Student (1923)” Wen Bing offers
an interesting account on
how American missionaries penetrated China preaching the need
for education. These
missionaries helped sponsor hundreds of Chinese students to
America for education. The
intention of the education sponsorship was to help impact the
Chinese students with
technological skills that would help develop China into a strong
and prosperous nation.
Nevertheless, the program ended abruptly in 1881 as a result of
the Chinese students
being too Americanized and also because of growing poor
relations between China and

the United States. All in all, in his account Wen Bing maintains
that the educational
program was very important in China and helped shaped the
country into a prosperous
state with vast opportunities for its citizens. The students who
benefited from the
sponsorship program were able to occupy high offices which
helped shaped the country
despite fears that they had been negatively affected by being in
America.
The other reading that offers an interesting account of the
relationship between
China and America is “Memorial of Chinese Laborers at Rock
Springs, Wyoming
(1885).” The reading illustrates how efforts to eliminate the
Chinese from jobs resulted in
violence from the whites. The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock
Springs, Wyoming in
1885 featured an attack on the Chinese by the whites where the
massacre was triggered
by the Chinese miners refusing to join the white miners in a
strike for increased wages.

The racial hostilities further intensified resulting in the killing
and even burning of the
shacks that belonged to the Chinese. The reading thus shows the
negative effects brought
about by the racial hostilities between China and America where
the Chinese workers in
the United States suffered at the hands of the whites who
perceived them as a threat for
job opportunities and advancement.
The third reading that also shows the strained relationship
between China and
America in the 19th century. The reading “Why Am I a
Heathen? (1887)” which was
written by Wong Chin Foo features an account of the Chinese
culture as well as the plight
of the Chinese in America. In this reading, Wong Chin gives an
interesting account of
how despite acquiring a Christian education, he still remained
true to the Confucian
ideals of morality and goodness. In his account he details that
he was not impressed by
the hypocrisy and prejudices of the American Christian students
against the Chinese
students. According to Wong Chin, the American Christians

were always obsessed with
religion, building big churches and making long prayers yet
their neighborhoods were
marked with wickedness. The reading is very interesting as it
shows how the Christian
religion which is perceived to be ‘ideal’ is clouded by multiple
flaws.
Lastly, the reading “Experiments in Restriction” gives an
account of the Chinese
Exclusion Act which prohibited the immigration of the Chinese
laborers into America.
The reading details how the Chinese immigrants suffered at the
hands of the Americans
where they were often detained without trial and even deported
illegally. In the reading,
“A Bowlful of Tears” Lee Puey extends on the same by giving
her an immigration
account at Angel Island. Lee Puey gives a rather sad account of
how she was denied entry
into the United States and was instead detained at Angel Island
for over 20 months before
being deported. Lee Puey illustrates how her detainment
featured sexual exploitation and

institutional racism. Both readings play a key role in
understanding the struggles and
triumphs that featured the immigration saga of the Chinese into
the United States hence
bringing about a better appreciation of Chinese history and a
better understanding of the
relationship that existed between China and America.

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