ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Edo Period, Japanese Americans, Page Act Of 1875
23 May 2018
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Japaese Aerica Iigratio September 22
I. Chinese immigrant women
• Free:
o Merchants wives
o Bound to the home by racism and bound to the home by the rule of
Confucianism
• Unfree:
o Prostitutes, indentured, trafficking of victims
o 85-95% prior to the Page Act of 1875
o Mu tsai: indentured girls from China or daughters of prostitutes who worked as
domestic servants in affluent Chinese homes.
II. What freed the women from prostitution?
• Crib: contained the prostitutes.
• Advancement to madam
• Protestant church campaigns
o Cameron House in SF Chinatown: hid underage girls for prostitution from the
Tongs who would search for them.
• Chinese nationalism: movement to strengthen China by removing prostitution.
• Acculturation in to mainstream
III. Historical context of Japanese migration
• Japanese studied Chinese experience of racism, and learned to be different.
• Japanese government took measures to avoid by using the government in selecting
speifi iigrats. They aoided the iage that they ere heap, uskilled laor.
• Japanese that entered wore Western clothes
• Family migration was encouraged.
• Education and financial requirements were set in place for Japanese.
IV. Still viewed the same
• Hawaii: less overt racism (majority were Asian).
• Mainland: suffered blatant racism
• Japanese were often mistaken for being Chinese despite differences in language and
culture.
• Adaptive abilities seen as more dangerous than Chinese by Americans.
V. Background to Japanese immigration
• Japan broke away from its isolationist policy
o 1600-1868: Tokugawa period
o Imposed policy of isolation from the West
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Document Summary
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