The Mid-nineteenth Century To The Early 20th Century The Chinese Exclusion Act

The US has long been considering itself as "Land of Dream" with its advanced civilization. However, for the Chinese migrants from late 19th century to 1940s, it is another name for nightmare. With the tricks of anti-immigration and anti-naturalization, America formally carried out its anti-Chinese policies in the 1880s, and the execution did not end until the 1940s, which rendered thousands of American-Chinese people and their decedents with severe catastrophes. As the judicial power plays a decisive role in the politics of America, the series of anti-Chinese policies could not be conducted without the cooperation of the judicial branch. Thus, it is the support from the district courts to the Supreme Court that had enabled the anti-Chinese movements to last for as long as a century.With such historical information and the starting point of the formation and motivation of the American anti-Chinese policies, this dissertation combines the social and legislative backgrounds in different periods and the representative justice cases according to the time sequence, and quotes a great deal of real materials and cases to reveal that the so-called democracy and equal rights of America are as a matter of fact all hypocritical. Now, leaded by USA and some western countries, the international society is raising another round of anti-Chinese movements. One of the best ways to fight against them is to disclose their own disgraceful history. This dissertation can provide a new point of view to those who can judge the history objectively and justly.