![]() ![]() The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, signed into law by President Arthur, severely limited the ability of Chinese men and women to enter the United States. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act, and how will it affect your characters? In this post, Joanna Shupe answers our questions about the Chinese Exclusion Act and how she came up with the idea to work such substantive history into the conflict of her novel. ![]() Even with his lucrative newspapers and powerful friends, though, can he find a way around one of the worst laws of the Gilded Age-the Chinese Exclusion Act-to reunite a friend’s family? Calvin Cabot, the son of humble American missionaries in China, has grown up to become one of the most influential men in America. ![]() Thus begins Mogul, Shupe’s last book in the Knickerbocker series. She never expected to find her former husband in an opium den. In Mogul, one will battle a real historical injustice: the racist immigration laws of the late nineteenth century. But whether they are from Five Points or Fifth Avenue, they are all swoon-worthy. While some are born to the Knickerbocker Club set, others are self-made titans of industry. Award-winning author Joanna Shupe writes the men of Edwardian era New York like no other. ![]()
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