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Chinese abolitionism: the Chinese Educational Mission in Connecticut, Cuba, and Peru*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Steffen Rimner
Steffen Rimner*
Affiliation:
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street 9th Floor, New York, NY 10027, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article explores a little known facet of transnational opposition to forced labour through the earliest case of ‘Chinese abolitionism’. It analyses the transnational formation of the first Sino-American actor network in the United States and its deployment in the 1874 investigations of coolie conditions in the forced labour regimes of Cuba and Peru. At the core of this actor network was the Chinese Educational Mission and its milieu of sociability, which served as a crucible of transnational cooperation between the first Chinese America experts and their US supporters. The flows of information, cosmopolitan ideas, and personnel across this network led to an unprecedented reinterpretation of the global coolie trade as a key concern in Qing foreign relations and a serious international problem that paralleled the problem of slavery. Two Qing interventions harnessed the actor network’s social capital, framing coolie abuse as an international atrocity, accelerating the abolition of the coolie trade, and signalling the need for a Chinese Foreign Service in Western countries for the protection of Chinese overseas.

Keywords

Chinese Educational Missioncoolie tradeCubaPeruUS–China relations
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Journal of Global History , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 344 - 364
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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I wish to thank Simone Müller and Heather Ellis, the participants of the SIAS seminar on ‘Cultural encounters’ at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, the Harvard Seminar on History and Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, the workshop ‘L’environnement des travailleurs au XXe siècle’ at EHESS in Paris, the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, and particularly Jacqueline Bhabha, Alejandro de la Fuente, Liana DeMarco, Paul Kennedy, Harry Liebersohn, Emily Rosenberg, Jay Sexton, Cristina Soriano, Moshik Temkin, the Journal’s editors and the anonymous reviewers for inspiration and criticism.

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