HIS-215 Lecture 3: Chiense Immigrant Women Notes
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Terms: hostage theory, mui tsai, foot binding. First wave of women, people migrating to san francisco. Continuity and change, there is certainly an adaptation of chinese cultural practices to this new context. Pay attention to a general theme: extent to which women had to adapt their cultural practices, they were predominantly negative. Exclusion in the united states started in the united states, gender is a huge part of that story. Movement of people, always have to talk about push and pull factors, theres a reason why people go from one place to another place. Push - european imperialism, forcing open of china to european markets destabilized politics and the economy, a lot of people forced to leave. Pull - for california, gold rush, discovery of gold in 1840s, a lot of migration to. What"s distinctive about the chinese experience, it is almost entirely of men. *very few chinese women came to gold mountain.
