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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mrs. S. L. Baldwin was born Ester M. Jerman to Reverend M. and Joanna Jerman on November 8, 1840. She attended the Pennington Seminary when it was a collegiate institute for women, earned a Methodist Episcopal studies diploma, and was the valedictorian of her class in 1859. She married Rev. Stephen L. Baldwin in April of 1862. She was a real daughter of the manse, and by the time she had written \*\*\*Must the Chinese Go \*\*\* she had been a missionary in China for 18 years. But the Northern Christian Advocate reviewed her work in irritation, criticizing that 'portions of it are only stinging and bold satire.' Baldwin cites, sometimes with tongue in cheek, the arguments against Chinese immigration that are often lobbed against other groups of immigrants that have also attempted to enter the US: that they are of a lower class, will bring disease, they don't pay taxes, they cheapen labor, and fail to assimilate. Cries against Chinese immigration began in response to the development of the transcontinental railroad which saw the arrival of Chinese immigrants, exploited as cheap labor. The first restrictive Act passed on May 6, 1882, and was the start of a series of increasingly more restrictive laws against Chinese, such as the Act to Prohibit the Coming of Chinese Persons into the United States, known more popularly as the Geary Act of May 1892. It wasn't until the Immigration Act of October 1965 when the exclusionary practices were lifted, despite President Truman's signing of the Act to Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts, to Establish Quotas and for Other Purposes in December of 1943.…

First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank, "To my friend Mrs Oliver Crane from Esther E. Baldwin, 1218 Pacific St, Brooklyn, Jan. 1902". Crane was an accomplished musician, a keen traveller, and a member of several New England societies, including the American Oriental Society. Esther E. Baldwin (1840-1910), known to contemporaries as the "Chinese Champion" because of her advocacy for Chinese immigrants in the United States, served in Fuzhou as a missionary throughout the 1860s and 1870s. In The Chinese Book of Etiquette, she offered the first adaptation into English of the Nu Jie by Ban Zhao (c.45-120 CE), a leading Han dynasty literatus. The daughter of the court historian Ban Biao, Ban enjoyed a privileged education at a time when the majority of Han women were not given formal tutoring in the classics. Her Nu Jie, written to prepare her daughters and nieces for life, was a cornerstone of Confucian thought for 2,000 years. Drawing from ideas contained in the Confucian Li Ji (Classic of Rites), it stressed the virtues of obedience and self-sacrifice: "All girls, everywhere, first should learn to cultivate virtue. Of cultivating virtue's methods, the most important is to be pure and upright in morals" (p. 1). After the death of her brother, Ban Gu, Ban completed his Han Shu (Book of Han), the standard official history of the Western Han Dynasty. Sibylla Bailey Crane (born Sibylla Adelaide Bailey, 1851-1902) was actively involved in many learned societies and co-founded the Castilian Club, a women's study group based in Boston. Together with her husband, Revd Oliver Crane, she collected art and antiquities, donating several pieces to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She died suddenly in the same month as she received this copy, likely having returned from visiting the author at her Pacific Street house in Brooklyn. Octavo. With 12 illustrations after drawings by Pang Sun Yow; title page and text pages framed with green bamboo design. Original red diagonally ribbed cloth, front cover elaborately blocked in gilt and green after a design by Pang Sun Yow, red endpapers, edges gilt. First blank with traces of pencilled gift inscription from Mary B. Safford (1869-1937) to Barbara Badger Hennessey (1910-1992); Hennessey's signature and pressmark on front free endpaper recto and first blank. Spine sunned and rubbed, gilt bright, light marking on rear covers, contents clean: a very good copy.…