Week 4: AA History - Japanese Labor Migration & Emigration to US, Study notes of Asian literature

Download Week 4: AA History - Japanese Labor Migration & Emigration to US and more Study notes Asian literature in PDF only on Docsity! Week 4 Reading Notes Major Problems in AA History: Chapter 3 By the turn of the century (1900), the Japanese replaced the Chinese as the nation’s largest Asian group - Retained this position until the 1980s - Agricultural expansion in California played a vital role in driving Japanese labor migration. First 4 documents- look @ working conditions Document 1: a brief observation of a Chinese mining camp by Scottish journalist - A Chinaman could be hired for 2-3 dollars a day by anyone who thought their labor worth so much- most were still paid less. (64) - The individuals of any community must exist by supplying the wants of others and when a man neither does this, nor has any wants of his own but those which he provides for himself, he is of no use to his neighbors; but when, in addition to this he also diminishes the productiveness of the country, he is a positive disadvantage in proportion to the amount of public wealth which he engrosses, and becomes a public nuisance. (64) Document 2: Chinese workers left a report of the anti-Chinese riot that erupted in the Wyoming Territory town of Rock Springs in 1885 - Whenever the mob met a Chinese they stopped him and, pointing a weapon at him, asked him if he had any revolver, and then approaching him they searched his person, robbing him of his watch or any gold or silver that he might have about him, before letting him go (67) Document 3: expose’ of a San Francisco brothel by journalist Helen Grey- revealing that women (especially non-whites) faced a different sort of subordination on the western frontier. - Owning of girls and women- being sold into slavery like property Document 4: a photograph of a Chinese merchant’s store in Holyoke, Mass. In 1904 - Chinese merchants played a vital role as middlemen between Chinese laborers and the broader white community Final 4 documents: address the importance of emigration to the United States for the rising world power of Japan. Document 5: excerpt from the writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi (Japan’s leading authority on the West) - Though his tone is highly critical, Yukichi expresses that Europe (and in relation the US) has achieved a higher stage of civilization than Japan and the rest of the world.