[MCN] Free webinar: Montana's Chinese & the Anti-American Boycott of 1905

[Jessie Rogers]

The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula invites you to a free webinar:
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Register here <https://form.jotform.com/210875991431158> to join us in welcoming Professor Mark Johnson, University of Notre Dame.



"The sleeping lion, has awakened"

Montana's Chinese & the Anti-American Boycott of 1905

In 1905, a special census was taken of Montana's Chinese residents. Whereas the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act limited entry of laborers at the borders, this 1905 census built from harsher restrictions of the 1890s seeking to find and deport Chinese lacking proper documentation.



Concurrent with this census, two Chinese reformers, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, exiled from China following a reaction against their reform efforts, sought allies in overseas Chinese communities. As Kang and Liang visited Montana, they witnessed unfair treatment of the state's Chinese, notably through the humiliation of the census round-up and resulting deportations. Gaining empathy through this exposure to the plight of the Chinese in the American West, Liang and Kang advocated on their behalf, initiating a China-wide boycott of American products to pressure the American government to improve treatment of Chinese in the U.S.



The coming together of exiled Chinese reformers with a class of Chinese they otherwise would never have encountered sparked one of the first manifestations of unified Chinese nationalism, with unlikely roots in the experience of the Chinese in Montana.

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Document Detectives is an exciting new webinar series, which highlights the ways archival sources can both help and hinder anyone studying our diverse past. Our presenters will examine sources such as newspaper articles, census records, and media of all types, and discuss various ways in which the biases inherent in these sources can be noticed and accounted for.

Join us on April 28th at 1pm for this unique blend of under-told history and a peek behind the scenes of how that history was pieced together. This free webinar is open to everyone. Attendees must register in advance<https://form.jotform.com/210875991431158>.



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Thank you!

Jessie Rogers
Development & Communications Director
The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula

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