ASIA AM 10W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cockstock Incident, Pearl River Delta, Chain Migration

• School: UCLA
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: ASIA AM 10W
• Professor: Fong, K.N

Document Summary

Direct quotations and those with the biggest bullet point are directly from the professor"s slides. Other than that, it is either paraphrased or summarized, including the wrap up part and those with the smaller bullet points. Announcement: history research proposal due next week: who you want to interview for that paper; identify that person (asian pacific islanders), the theme (related to labor, migration, any. ), the source of the theme (not from the assigned reading) look ahead at the syllabus (im)migration. The professor"s argument: asian (im)migration is shaped by expansions in capitalism, The expansions of these -ism come from western demands for an alternative imperialism, colonialism. cheap labor after slavery is prohibited and for asian products such as teas, silks, that are considered luxury. The perceptions of asia are shaped from those people who first explored asia and had the connections to both asia and western countries, including merchants, military people, and missionaries.