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    The Chinese head tax was a fixed fee charged to every Chinese person entering Canada. The head tax was first levied after the Canadian parliament passed...
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  • A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference...
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  • of Chinese immigration. Such was achieved through the same law that ended the head tax: the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, which stopped Chinese immigration...
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    Chinese immigration was heavily controlled by the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, which imposed an onerous head tax on all immigrants from China. After...
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  • tax on Chinese immigrants during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The poll tax was effectively lifted in the 1930s following the invasion of China by...
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  • versions of the poll tax once levied in the United States as a precondition to voting New Zealand head tax, a poll tax once levied on Chinese immigrants The...
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    tax still alive in 2006. China portal Taiwan portal Hong Kong portal Canada portal History portal Politics portal Chinese head tax in Canada Chinese Immigration...
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    substantial head tax for each Chinese person trying to immigrate to Canada. The Chinese were the only ethnic group that had to pay such a tax. Owing to...
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    The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 was an act of the Parliament of Canada that placed a head tax of $50 (equivalent to $1,749 in 2023) on all Chinese immigrants...
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  • Taxes provide the most important revenue source for the Government of the People's Republic of China. Tax is a key component of macro-economic policy...
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    restricting immigration from China and India, as shown by his support for the Chinese head tax. In 1900, Laurier raised the Chinese head tax to $100. In 1903, this...
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    Columbia through the imposition of the Chinese head tax. This resentment culminated in mob attacks against Chinese and Japanese immigrants in Vancouver...
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    through the Chinese restaurant syndrome was caused by "xenophobic" or "racist" biases. Food historian Ian Mosby wrote that fear of MSG in Chinese food is...
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  • chant gives it as "Chinese/Japanese/Dirty Knees/Look at these Chinese Japanese/Dirty Knees". Other renderings give the chant as "Chinese, Japanese, dirty...
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  • mock or imitate the Chinese language, people of Chinese ancestry, or other people of East Asian descent perceived to be Chinese. The term is a derogatory...
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    Chink (category Anti-Chinese sentiment)
    the Northern United States perceived Chinese immigration as a threat to their living standards. However, Chinese workers were still desired in the Western...
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    000 that was earmarked for education about the Chinese head tax, and was left unspent when one Chinese community group failed to file the required paperwork...
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    on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods". CNN. June 15, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018. "Trump imposes import taxes on Chinese goods, and warns of 'additional...
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  • 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest (category Anti-Chinese sentiment in Oceania)
    to a sudden reduction in their salaries and prime minister James Marape's tax deduction announcement which was later retracted. The riots saw arson, looting...
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    influential Chinese-Indonesians, the Suharto government passed several laws as part of the so-called "Basic Policy for the Solution of Chinese Problem",...
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  • 2013 Tiananmen Square attack (category 2013 murders in China)
    Chinese state media largely downplayed the incident, with only brief reports. Although such associations were made in English-language media, Chinese-language...
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    Overseas Chinese people are people of Chinese origin who reside outside Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). As of 2011, there...
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    prime minister. Macdonald came under criticism for his role in the Chinese head tax and federal policies toward Indigenous peoples, including his actions...
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    The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers...
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    Pol Pot (category Heads of government who were later imprisoned)
    born in March 1925. His family was of mixed Chinese and ethnic Khmer heritage, but did not speak Chinese and lived as though they were fully Khmer. His...
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    Linus, ed. (2015-10-05), "The rise of the Chinese 'Other' in Japan's construction of identity: Is China a focal point of Japanese nationalism?", Identity...
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  • result of accusations that the China Initiative was racially profiling Chinese American citizens and other residents of Chinese origin or ancestry, however...
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    mounting labour shortage. The Chinese head tax was a fixed fee charged to each Chinese person entering Canada. The head tax was first levied after the Canadian...
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    Trump tariffs (category 2018 in China)
    to in media as the Trump-China trade war) were protectionist trade initiatives during the Trump administration against Chinese imports. During the presidency...
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  • the Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society (ACCESS) and Head Tax Families Society. Chinese Head Tax Redress campaign, fought...
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