[Anti-Chinese] VIOLENCE 排华暴力事件There
is already a large literature on anti-Chinese violence in North America
during the 19th and early 20th centuries: an important recent example
is Jean Pfaelzer’s Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans (2007).
We do not propose to recaptulate this literature here, and in any
case we feel that Chinese-American historiography is not greatly in need
of still more victim narratives. And yet we also feel that modern
residents of our liberal, ethnically sensitive, politically correct
region must be reminded that the Pacific Northwest has not always been
that way. As the following map shows, in the late 19th century our
northwestern region was in the forefront of American intolerance and
vicious persecution of non-white peoples, especially the Chinese.