| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans. By Jean Pfaelzer. (New York: Random House, 2007. xxix + 400 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $27.95.)

Jean Pfaelzer, a professor of English, East Asian Studies, and American Studies at the University of Delaware, has produced a sweeping new account of anti-Chinese violence in the West. At the heart of her book are the hundreds of riots, roundups, and expulsions of Chinese immigrants that occurred in western communities in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Chinese referred to these pogroms as pai hua, or, the "Driven Out." The author's detailed examination of the violence leads her to the stark conclusion that "what occurred along the Pacific Coast, from the gold rush through the turn of the century, was ethnic cleansing" (p. xxix).

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