... immigration control political cartoons Chinese immigration nineteenth-century San Francisco cross-dressing ...

... narratives of nonnormative gender to mobilize restrictions on national belonging. In particular, political campaigns for Chinese exclusion relied heavily upon cross-dressing imagery to vilify Chinese immigrants as hyperfeminine, deceptive men. Federal immigration law also ensnared people who wore clothing...

... Wars of Independence War of the Pacific bullfights Chinese immigration slavery and abolition ...

... the atypical documents used by Taiwanese and Chinese to move between the two countries and the identity documents issued to Chinese marriage immigrants in Taiwan, she investigates how these documents substantiate Taiwan’s claims to sovereign standing and simultaneously undo those claims through their anomalous...

... and a nostalgia for the supposedly golden era of colonial rule emerged, a sentiment and art form that blossomed in the twentieth century. Wars of Independence War of the Pacific bullfights Chinese immigration slavery and abolition ...

... by Taiwanese and Chinese to move between the two countries and the identity documents issued to Chinese marriage immigrants in Taiwan, she investigates how these documents substantiate Taiwan’s claims to sovereign standing and simultaneously undo those claims through their anomalous qualities. Through careful...

.... In the process it dovetailed with a host of nuisance laws concerned with the public visibility of multiple problem bodies, particularly those of Chinese immigrants, prostitutes, and those deemed maimed or diseased. urban policing insane asylums public space ...