The Good Immigrants : How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority / Madeline Y. Hsu.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2015.

xv, 335 pages : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 25 cm.

Published by Princeton University Press.

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Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

Gateways and Gates in American Immigration History -- “The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient”: Student Exceptions to the Racial Bar against Chinese, 1872–1925 -- The China Institute in America: Advocating for China through Educational Exchange, 1926–1937 -- “A Pressing Problem of Interracial Justice” Repealing Chinese Exclusion, 1937–1943 -- The Wartime Transformation of Student Visitors into Refugee Citizens, 1943–1955 -- “The Best Type of Chinese”: Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals and Symbolic Refugee Relief, 1952–1960 -- “Economic and Humanitarian” Propaganda and the Redemption of Chinese Immigrants through Refugee Relief -- Symbiotic Brain Drains Immigration Reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment Act of 1965 -- Conclusion: The American Marketplace of Brains.

Jacket photograph: 1959 publicity still of refugees in Hong Kong boarding one of the last Pan Am planes chartered by the voluntary agency Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. ARCI Collection, Box 1, “Chartered Flights.” Courtesy of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])