Views of Others

28 August 2000
A collection of links from searches for the phrases "John Chinaman" and "heathen Chinee"

John Chinaman (P.P. Bliss, ca. 1870)

John Chinaman in San Francisco (from Harpers Weekly, 1869)

Chinese Immigration to Canada (includes "The Chinese In San Francisco" from Illustrated London News, 1875)

Resistance to the Anti-Chinese Movement, 1852-1905: the Chinese American perspective (Wei-min Wang's Amherst homors thesis, 1995)

Asia Through a Glass Darkly: Stereotypes of Asians in Western Literature (Article written by John S. Major for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. V, No. 3, Contemporary Literature, pp. 4-8, Spring 1986. Copyright AskAsia, 1996.)

The Ching Collection: Chinese stereotypes in the American trade card

Comment on California's Attitude By Eastern Investigators by Edward Hunderford (Harper's Weekly 1913)

John Chinaman, My Jo (Conner's Irish Song Book, 1868)

Chinatown from Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives (1890)

cartoon from San Francisco Wasp

Plain Language from Truthful James Or "The Heathen Chinee" (Bret Harte) (and other items from The California Reader)