Ina"Claiming the Oriental Gateway," Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores some of the intersections of urbanization, ethnic id, and internationalism within the event of eastern american citizens in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the improvement and self-image of the town via documenting how U.S. enlargement, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism have been manifested locallyOCoand how those forces affected residentsOCO relationships with each other and their surroundings.

Lee info the numerous function jap AmericansOCoboth immigrants and U.S. born citizensOCoplayed within the social and civic lifetime of town as a way of turning into American. Seattle embraced the belief of cosmopolitanism and boosted its position as a cultural and advertisement Gateway to the Orient whilst it constrained the ways that Asian american citizens may perhaps perform the general public colleges, neighborhood paintings construction, civic celebrations, and activities. She additionally seems at how Japan inspired the idea of the gateway in its participation within the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and foreign Potlach.

"Claiming the Oriental Gatewaya"thus bargains an illuminating examine of the Pacific period and trans-Pacific relatives within the first 4 a long time of the 20 th century.