'Strangers in the Land' traces Chinese workers' rise and expulsion in US

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Opponents of Chinese migration claimed to be taking a progressive stance for free labour. Those opponents transformed the country’s concept of border security.

Years later, in an 1889 decision, Justice Field called the Chinese “strangers in the land” and wrote that the federal government had the right to expel them to resist “foreign aggression”. Then there is Frederick Douglass.

Americans welcomed the scholars into their homes — until China cut short Yung’s mission, fearing the students had grown too comfortable with the local customs and religion. I read this book while covering the early moves of the second Trump administration and also while reporting in China, and kept finding parallels to current events.