Oz is China - Timeline
- 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
- 1890-91 L. Frank Baum’s racist editorials on Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee, Aberdeen, S. Dakota
- 1891 The Baum family moves to Chicago
- 1892 Baum joins the Theosophical Society
- 1892 Renewal of the Chinese Exclusion Act (originally passed in 1882)
- 1892 Pearl Buck born in the U.S. and taken to China at age 3 months
- 1897 Qingdao ceded to Germany
- 1898 Spanish-American War results in Spain’s defeat and the American purchase of the Spanish territories, including the Philippines. Annexation of Hawaii. Kaiser coins the term The Yellow Peril. Empress Dowager Cixi ends the so-called Hundred Days Reform with a coup d’etat. The Guangxu Emperor is placed under house arrest. Boxer unrest increases.
- 1899 In February the Philippine-American war begins, lasting till 1913. In June, three Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government is going to demolish the Great Wall of China. In October, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is finished and copyrighted.
- 1900 In April, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is printed. In May and June the Boxers kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador and thousands of Chinese Christians. In July and August the European powers and Japan counter-attack, retaking Tianjin and then Beijing.
- 1901 The Western powers and Japan occupy Beijing; the emperor Guangxu and Empress Cixi flee to Xi’an. The Boxer Uprising finally is suppressed.
- 1905 Anna May Wong born in Los Angeles
- 1919 Death of L. Frank Baum
- 1931 The Good Earth novel
- 1932 Shanghai Express film starring Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong
- 1933 Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen
- 1934 Buck leaves China; the Communists’ Long March
- 1935 Hergé's The Blue Lotus
- 1936 Anna May Wong visits China
- 1937 The Good Earth film, war breaks out between Japan and China, the Rape of Nanjing.
- 1939 The Wizard of Oz film
- 1942 Monkey, an influential abridged English translation of Journey to the West by Arthur Waley, is published.
- 1949 Chinese Revolution
- 1956 Buck’s historical biography Imperial Woman
- 1957 Chaguan (The Teahouse), a play by Lao Shê
- 1961 Anna May Wong dies
- 1963 Hollywood makes 55 Days at Peking, set during the Boxer Uprising
- 1973 Pearl S. Buck dies