Contents

Introduction

• About the Project: research questions, corpus scope, and key arguments
• Historical Context: Chinese immigration, the Exclusion Act era, birthright citizenship, and key legal cases

Methodology

• Dataset Construction: keyword collection, geographic standardization, OCR cleaning, excerpt extraction
• Analytical Methods: MALLET topic modeling, coherence evaluation, Datawrapper chart preparation
• Map Construction: historical boundary data, geographic resolution, topic assignment, event overlays

Dataset

• Browse the Dataset: search and filter all 1,535 records with links to Chronicling America
• Dataset Reference: column descriptions, summary statistics, and an example record

Analysis

• Mapping the Discourse: thematic landscape of Chinese children coverage, 1880–1885
• The Reprint Effect: how the newspaper reprinting network amplified and suppressed topics
• Education at the Center: four education sub-discourses across time, region, and keyword

Spatial Map

• Overview: how to use the map, topic categories, and key observations
• Interactive Map: full-screen map of article origins, topics, events, and time playback
• Map References: data sources, basemaps, tools, and software