Liping Zhu is professor of history at Eastern Washington University, USA, author of A Chinaman’s Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, and coauthor of Ethnic Oasis: The Chinese in the Black Hills.
"Liping Zhu takes what others might see as local events and shows
that they, in fact, rose from outside events. He also shows how
such events can sometimes have multiple impacts on the larger
world."--Pacific Historical Review"A superb local history, The Road
to Chinese Exclusion also makes fruitful efforts in placing
Colorado's increasing hostility toward the Chinese in the larger
contexts of American national politics surrounding issues of race,
sectional conflict, and the growing prominence of the West. . . .
Zhu's study sheds valuable light on the extraordinary importance of
the Chinese American experience for understanding the development
of the United States in the late nineteenth century."--New Mexico
Historical Review
"Zhu breaks new, important ground in this superbly researched
volume. His cross-continental study links the 1880 Denver
Anti-Chinese Riot with the unexpected outcome of that year's
election. Here, for the first time, we see the revealing
connections between racism and politics in the 1880 election and in
the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882."--Richard W. Etulain, author of
Re-Imagining the Modern American West"Zhu's study of regional
politics in the American West leading to the national decision to
exclude Chinese from the country is a must-read for those wanting
to understand the current immigration dilemma."--William Wei,
author of The Asian American Movement"A diligently researched,
clearly written, illuminating look into a scary closet of America's
dark history. Rarely are local and national history so skillfully
intertwined."--Tom Noel, Director of Public History, Preservation &
Colorado Studies, University of Colorado Denver"Zhu's revelations
about the impact of the Denver Riot are fascinating and offer a new
look at the Election of 1880 and the changing sectional rivalries
playing out in the late nineteenth century."--Diana Ahmad, author
of The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the
Nineteenth-Century American West
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