Writings on the Chinese in California
Author : Pearl Ng
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Pearl Ng
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Yong Chen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804745505
Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco.
Author : Albert Dressler
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Chinese
ISBN :
Includes telegrams exchanged by Chinese residents to and from Downieville, Sierra County, California, during the year 1874, and an examination of the case People of the state of California vs. Ah Jake, defendant.
Author : Judy Yung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0520243099
Offering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs. It provides an insight into immigration, work, family and social life, and the longstanding fight for equality and inclusion.
Author : Victor Nee
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804153914
Beginning with the immigrants who left poverty-ridden villages in China to try for a better livelihood in America, the narratives and extensive interviews of Longtime Californ’ tell the true story of the Chinese in America. A young Chinese girl tells of being sold into slavery, brought to America, and rescued by a missionary; men of Chinatown recall the awful conditions and long waits on Angel Island before being allowed into the country, and remember the backbreaking experience of building the railroads that opened the West. The young Chinese are also here: some are angry and frustrated, spending their time on street corners and in gang fights; other are Marxist radicals trying to create social, political, and economic change in Chinatown ghetto. And there are the workers who go back and forth each day to the garment factories and the shops, each with his or her own story to tell, each contributing his or her share to the country that is San Francisco Chinatown. Throughout these and other stories the intricate patterns of Chinese life emerge as Chinese traditions and American customs combine to create the unique experience of Chinese-Americas, Longtime Californ’ goes beyond the hand laundries and restaurants with which Americans often associate the Chinese and unveils the secret societies, the powerful family associations, and the daily lives of the people of Chinatown.
Author : Andrew Gyory
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 080786675X
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open immigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for future restrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s and against Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Andrew Gyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politics during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Rather than directly confront such divisive problems as class conflict, economic depression, and rising unemployment, he contends, politicians sought a safe, nonideological solution to the nation's industrial crisis--and latched onto Chinese exclusion. Ignoring workers' demands for an end simply to imported contract labor, they claimed instead that working people would be better off if there were no Chinese immigrants. By playing the race card, Gyory argues, national politicians--not California, not organized labor, and not a general racist atmosphere--provided the motive force behind the era's most racist legislation.
Author : Matt Sheehan
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1640092153
A timely, vital account of California’s unique relationship with China, told through the exploits of the entrepreneurs, activists, and politicians driving transformations with international implications. Tensions between the world’s superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. Yet, the People's Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, making California and China a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the twenty–first century. In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist and China analyst Matt Sheehan chronicles the real people who are making these connections. Sheehan tells the story of a Southern Californian mayor who believes a Chinese electric bus factory will save his town from meth labs and skinheads. He follows a Chinese AI researcher who leaves Google to compete with his former employer from behind the Great Firewall. Sheehan joins a tour bus of wealthy Chinese families shopping for homes in the Bay Area, revealing disgruntled neighbors and raising important questions about California’s own narratives around immigration and the American Dream. Sheehan’s on–the–ground reporting reveals movie sets in the “Hollywood of China,” Chinese–funded housing projects in San Francisco, Chinese immigrants who support Donald Trump, and more. Each of these stories lays bare the new reality of twenty–first–century superpowers: the closer they get to one another, the more personal their frictions become. “Cuts right to the heart of the relationship between Silicon Valley and China: the tangled history, the current tensions, and the uncertain future . . . a must–read.”—Kai–Fu Lee, former president of Google China and founder of Sinovation Ventures
Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520067370
The role of the Chinese in California agriculture during the later decades of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century was an integral aspect of the agricultural history of the western United States. Although the number of Chinese involved in agricultural occupations at one time never exceeded 6000 to 7000 workers, their lack of numbers does not diminish their impact. Author Chan, of Chinese origin, has made extensive use of census records and county archival sources to produce the first full history of the Chinese in California agriculture.
Author : Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Publisher : East West Discovery Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
A collection of essays on contemporary and historical accounts of Chinese Americans in Southern California, from Santa Barbara in the north to Mexicali in the south.
Author : Sylvia Sun Minnick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738520537
Stockton, referred to as Sam Fow by its Chinese community, was the third largest metropolitan area leading to the goldfields of California at the turn of the 20th century. The Chinese immigrants came from Kwangtung, China, to find their fortune, and instead found a series of restrictive laws aimed at keeping them from participating in the development of the burgeoning frontier town. Their story is here, in over 200 vintage images of community life and resilience. Despite legislation such as the Foreign Miners' taxes and the California Alien Land Act, and most recently the construction of the Crosstown Freeway combined with the redevelopment project that disseminated the heart of Chinatown, the Chinese of this area were major contributors to California and Stockton's economy. They have maintained a balance between their heritage of familial and religious obligations and western education and activities. Included are photographs dating from the late 1920s of traditional Chinese associations and more recent community activities. These images showcase once thriving businesses, educational and religious efforts, and familial milestones.