Trans-Pacific Interactions

1. Transnational Nationalisms—China and the United States in a Pacific World: An Introduction
Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer

Part I. Nationalisms and Configurations of National Identity in China and the United States

2. The American Dream and Dreams of China: A Transnational Approach to Chinese American History
Yong Chen

3. National Studies and Global Entanglements: The Reenvisioning of China in the Early Twentieth Century
Klaus Mühlhahn

4. China in the World: Constructions of a Chinese Identity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Nicola Spakowski

Part II. Chinese America, Citizenship, Nationality, and the World

5. Paper Citizens and Biometrical Identification: Immigration, Nationality, and Belonging in Chinese America during the Exclusion Era
Ruth Mayer

6. Befriending the Yellow Peril: Student Migration and the Warming of American Attitudes toward Chinese, 1905–1950
Madeline Y. Hsu

7. Between the “Mountain of Tang” and the “Adopted Land”: The Chinese American Periodical Press and the Emergence of Chinese American Identities in the Face of Exclusion
K. Scott Wong

Part III. Missionary Interventions: Cultural Mediation in China and the United States

8. Christian Mission and the Internationalization of China, 1830–1950
Thoralf Klein

9. “Following with Bleeding Footsteps?” American Missions in China and the (Gendered) Critique of Pearl S. Buck
Vanessa Künnemann

10. The Deserving Heathen: Missionary Ethnography of China and Its American Converts
Dominika Ferens

Keywords: History, US History, Modern History, History of the Americas, Asian History, Cultural History, History of China