- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Romanization and Chinese Names
- Wong Chin Foo Chronology
- Dramatis Personae
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1 The Arid Land of Heathenism (1847–67) -
2 An Abbreviated American Education (1868–70) -
3 The Timber from Which Conspirators Are Made (1871–72) -
4 Soiled Doves (1873–74) -
5 A Hare-Brained, Half-Crazy Man (1873–74) -
6 America’s First Confucian Missionary (1874) -
7 A Most Delightful Dish of Chow Chow (1875–79) -
8 A Terror to the Chinese Community (1879–82) -
9 The Chinese American (1883) -
10 Wiping Out the Stain (1883–85) -
11 I Shall Drive Him Back to His Sand Lots (1883) -
12 Pigtails in Politics (1884–86) -
13 Chop Suey (1884–86) -
14 Why Am I a Heathen? (1887) -
15 Fifty Cents a Pound (1887) -
16 The Chinese in New York (1887–89) -
17 I Have Always Been a Republican (1888–89) -
18 I’ll Cut Your Head Off If You Write Such Things (1888–91) -
19 The Only New Yorker Without a Country (1891) -
20 The Chinese Equal Rights League (1892) -
21 Is It Then a Crime to Be a Chinaman? (1893) -
22 An Ardent Worker for Justice (1893) -
23 False Starts (1894–95) -
24 The American Liberty Party (1896) -
25 A Letter from My Friends in America (1894–97) -
26 Citizenship for Americanized Chinese (1897) -
27 When the World Came to Omaha (1897–98) -
28 I Do Not Like Chinese Ways, Nor Chinamen Any More (1898) - Afterword
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Appendix Wong Chin Foo’s Published Works - Glossary and Gazetteer
- Bibliography
- Index
The Arid Land of Heathenism (1847–67)
The Arid Land of Heathenism (1847–67)
- Chapter:
- (p.1) 1 The Arid Land of Heathenism (1847–67)
- Source:
- The First Chinese American
- Author(s):
Scott D. Seligman
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
Wong Chin Foo (also known as Wong Sa Kee in his boyhood) was given over by his aged and destitute father to Christian missionaries in Shandong to raise. This chapter centres on how he grew up in a Caucasian family, received a western education and was baptized as a Christian. It also glances at how China was dominated by foreign powers in the two Opium Wars in the 19th century and how Christianity began to take root in China.
Keywords: Wong Chin Foo, Opium Wars, Christianity, Missionaries, Shandong, China, Chinese American
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Romanization and Chinese Names
- Wong Chin Foo Chronology
- Dramatis Personae
-
1 The Arid Land of Heathenism (1847–67) -
2 An Abbreviated American Education (1868–70) -
3 The Timber from Which Conspirators Are Made (1871–72) -
4 Soiled Doves (1873–74) -
5 A Hare-Brained, Half-Crazy Man (1873–74) -
6 America’s First Confucian Missionary (1874) -
7 A Most Delightful Dish of Chow Chow (1875–79) -
8 A Terror to the Chinese Community (1879–82) -
9 The Chinese American (1883) -
10 Wiping Out the Stain (1883–85) -
11 I Shall Drive Him Back to His Sand Lots (1883) -
12 Pigtails in Politics (1884–86) -
13 Chop Suey (1884–86) -
14 Why Am I a Heathen? (1887) -
15 Fifty Cents a Pound (1887) -
16 The Chinese in New York (1887–89) -
17 I Have Always Been a Republican (1888–89) -
18 I’ll Cut Your Head Off If You Write Such Things (1888–91) -
19 The Only New Yorker Without a Country (1891) -
20 The Chinese Equal Rights League (1892) -
21 Is It Then a Crime to Be a Chinaman? (1893) -
22 An Ardent Worker for Justice (1893) -
23 False Starts (1894–95) -
24 The American Liberty Party (1896) -
25 A Letter from My Friends in America (1894–97) -
26 Citizenship for Americanized Chinese (1897) -
27 When the World Came to Omaha (1897–98) -
28 I Do Not Like Chinese Ways, Nor Chinamen Any More (1898) - Afterword
-
Appendix Wong Chin Foo’s Published Works - Glossary and Gazetteer
- Bibliography
- Index
