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The Coming Man from Canton

其他書名	Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943
出版	U of Nebraska Press, 2017-08-01
主題	History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Social Science / ArchaeologySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
ISBN	08032997889780803299788
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tZ0nDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands, moving into the Rocky Mountain West and tenaciously searching for prosperity in the face of resistance, restriction, racism, and armed hostility from virtually every ethnic group in American society. As second-class citizens, Chinese immigrants remained largely insular and formed their own internal governments as well as labor and trade networks, typically establishing communities apart from the main towns. Chinese miners, launderers, restaurant keepers, gardeners, railroad laborers, and other workers became a separate but integral part of the American experience in the Intermountain West.

Although Chinese immigrants constituted more than 10 percent of the Montana Territory’s total population by 1870, the historical records provide a biased and narrow perspective, as they were generally written by European American community members. Merritt uses the statewide Montana context to show the diversity of Chinese settlements that has often been neglected by archival studies. His research highlights how the legacy of the Chinese in Montana is, or is not, reflected in modern Montana identity and how scholars, educators, professionals, and the public can alter the existing perception of this population as the “other” and perceive it instead an integral part of Montana’s past.