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Review of Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion by Grace H. Hong

Review of Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion by Grace H. Hong

March 19, 2021
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Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion. Grace H. Hong. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 9781469653365.

Reviewed by Lei Zhang, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota

Edited by Jeanne Grant

(c) 2021 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 21, Spring 2021. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org

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