1882 AD
Chinese Exclusion in the United States
Religion · Chinese traditions · Diasporas · Law and migration
The United States law restricted Chinese immigration and shaped diaspora communities and associations. It provides a political context for transnational practices.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1882
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
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- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
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Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2021-09-08
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2023-01-17
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
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