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Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communities that existed from coast to coast between 1919 and 1933? Their organizers and members have been, until now, largely absent from the history of the American Communist movement. In Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists, Josephine Fowler brings us the first in-depth account of Japanese and Chinese immigrant radicalism inside the United States and across the Pacific. Drawing on multilingual correspondence between left-wing and party members and other primary sources, such as records from branches of the Japanese Workers Association and the Chinese Nationalist Party, Fowler shows how pressures from the Comintern for various sub-groups of the party to unite as an “American” working class were met with resistance. The book also challenges longstanding stereotypes about the relationships among the Communist Party in the United States, the Comintern, and the Soviet Party.

Japanese Americans. --- Law. --- Political Science. --- Japanese Americans --- Chinese Americans --- Immigrants --- Politics and government --- Political activity --- Politics and government. --- Communist Party of the United States of America --- History. --- Kibei Nisei --- Nisei --- CPUSA --- Communist Party of the United States --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ SShA --- Mei-kuo kung chʻan tang --- Communist Party, U.S.A. --- Amerikan Komünist Partisi --- American Communist Party --- Partido Comunista de los Estados Unidos --- KP der USA --- K.P. der U.S.A. --- Kommunistische Partei der USA --- Kommunistische Partei der U.S.A. --- Ḳomunisṭishe parṭey der Fareynigṭe Shṭaṭn --- Communist Party USA --- קאמוניסטישער פארטיי פון די פאראייניקטע שטאטן --- קומוניסטישער פארטיי, פערייניקטע שטאטן --- Yhdysvaltain Kommunistipuolue --- Chinese --- Ethnology --- Japanese --- Workers (Communist) Party of America --- Communist Party of America --- Communist Political Association --- Progressive Labor Movement (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)