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Ethnic Chinese throughout the United States greeted the news of the People's Republic of China's entry into the Korean War in October 1950 with immense trepidation. "Like others of Oriental ancestry, they remember only too well the plight of 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry after an infamous December 7," observed the Washington Evening Star of the District of Columbia's Chinatown residents. "[They] cannot help but wonder if the larger community may some day turn upon them, especially if a more violent war should engulf China and the United States." Reverends Albert Lau and Wun Bew Wong of Los Angeles' Chinese First Presbyterian Church and Chinese Methodist Church, respectively, told of similar fears among their city's coethnics, as did San Francisco journalist Gilbert Woo. In light of McCarthyism's rapid rise, their apprehensions were not unfounded. The month before, Congress had passed the McCarran Internal Security Act, authorizing state detention of persons suspected of espionage or sabotage in the event of an invasion, war, or insurrection. Almost overnight the prevailing images of Chinese in the American public eye had metamorphosed from friendly (if weak) Pacific allies t

Author

Wu, Ellen D.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306081887