Scholarly resources
- Chan, Sucheng, ed. Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006.
- Chan, Sucheng, ed. Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
- Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
- Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin. Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
- Lau, Estelle T. Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
- Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
- Lee, Erika, and Judy Yung. Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Lew-Williams, Beth. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- McClain, Charles J. In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
- Miller, Stuart Creighton. The Unwelcome Immigrant: The American Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
- Pfaelzer, Jean. Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans. New York: Random House, 2007.
- Risse, Guenter B. Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
- Salyer, Lucy E. Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
- Shah, Nayan. Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
- Tchen, John Kuo Wei, and Dylan Yeats. “Yellow Peril: 19th-Century Scapegoating.” The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, March 5, 2014.
- Wong, Edlie L. Racial Reconstruction Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
- Wong, K. Scott, and Sucheng Chan, eds. Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
Web resources
- Illustrating Chinese Exclusion. Thomas Nast political cartoons.
- Chinese Exclusion Act. PBS, 2018.
- Lew-Williams, Beth. “The Chinese Must Go: Chinese Exclusion and Anti-Chinese Violence.” National Humanities Center, December 17, 2020.
- The Tacoma Method (anti-Chinese violence)