Resources

Here are some of the books on my bookshelves related to Chinese immigration, exclusion, and related topics

(If you’re looking to purchase any of these books, please start your search with your local bookstore instead of Amazon! Three of my favorite local bookstores are linked here, just click their images below.)

Books

General Chinese Exclusion
- Driven Out by Jean Pfaelzer
- The Anti-Chinese Movement in California by Elmer Clarence Sandmeyer
- Two Faces of Exclusion by Lon Kurashige
- The Chinese Must Go by Beth Lew Williams
Chinese communities in specific areas
- Canton Footprints by Philip P Choy (Chinese Communities in the Sacramento area)
- In Search of Gold Mountain by Murray K Lee (San Diego Chinese Communities)
- The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana by Mark T Johnson
Chinese and Railroads/ Labor History
- The Chinese and the Iron Road, Edited by Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin
- Ghosts of Gold Mountain by Gordon Chang
Chinese Women History
- The White Devil’s Daughters by Julia Flynn Siler
Historical Fiction
- Chasing Down the Moon by Carla Baku (historical fiction about the 1885 Expulsion from Eureka) (Presentation with the author at the Clarke Historical Museum, 2022)
AAPI Related History
- Organizing Asian American Labor by Chris Friday
General Immigration History
- The Deportation Machine by Adam Goodman

Films

Many Moons by Chisato Hughes (forthcoming)
Eureka by Miida Chu (forthcoming)

Podcasts

Blood on Gold Mountain (radioplay style retelling of the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre)

The China History Podcast (extensive podcast exploring a variety of topics related to China. Episode 194 specifically discusses US-China immigration around the exclusion era)