- 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
The Only New Yorker Without a Country (1891)
The Only New Yorker Without a Country (1891)
- Chapter:
- (p.186) (p.187) 19 The Only New Yorker Without a Country (1891)
- Source:
- The First Chinese American
- Author(s):
Scott D. Seligman
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
Wong wished to go abroad for a short trip, yet he was denied a passport by the U.S. government. The United States Commissioner claimed that no Chinaman was entitled to a passport under the instructions of the State Department. In 1891, Wong was arrested by the police for illegal voter registration, which was a felony. He was later tried and acquitted. His arrest and trial for illegal registration highlighted the extent of corruption in New York’s Chinatown in the late 19th century.
Keywords: Illegal voter registration, Passport, Arrest, Trial, Corruption, America, China, Chinese American, Wong Chin Foo
Hong Kong Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
- 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
