Table of Contents:
  • Gateways and gates in American immigration history
  • "The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient": student exceptions to the racial bar against Chinese, 1872-1925
  • The China Institute in America: advocating for China through educational exchange, 1926-1937
  • "A pressing problem of interracial justice": repealing Chinese exclusion, 1937-1943
  • The wartime transformation of student visitors into refugee citizens, 1943-1955
  • "The best type of Chinese": aid refugee Chinese intellectuals and symbolic refugee relief, 1952-1960
  • "Economic and humanitarian": propaganda and the redemption of Chinese immigrants through refugee relief
  • Symbiotic brain drains: immigration reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment act of 1965
  • Conclusion: the American marketplace of brains.