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- In Search of 'Gold Mountain'
- Chinatowns as Protective Zones
- Violence Peaks During 'Yellow Peril' Era
- Changing Laws Allow Chinatown Populations to Diversify
When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the Chinese—particularly from the Guangdong Province’s Pearl River Delta—started to immigrate en masse, lured by the image of a gam saan, or gold mountain, waiting for them in America. But instead of finding quick fortunes, the immigrants, who were mostly married men who had left their spouses behind,...
Many of those who decided to stay had been contract workers on the railroad, which was completed by 1869. “They had to figure out where to live to create new livelihood and the only way they could do it was to create mono-ethnic Chinatowns,” Lai says. One destination was San Francisco, home to the country’s oldest Chinatown dating back to the 1850s...
Despite the protections offered by Chinatowns, immigrants faced intensifying discrimination during the period known as the "Yellow Peril" in the late 1800s. Sometimes this took the form of official policies. In San Francisco, goods coming out of the neighborhood had to be labeled as Chinatown products, and upwards of 30 ordinances were passed just ...
Despite the violence, many Chinatowns survived. And when the Exclusion Act was repealed in 1943, followed by the War Brides Act in 1945, the communities that had been dominated by men started to shift. “This allowed the wives of Chinese American veterans to come into the United States,” Louie says. “So you see that the gender balance begins to even...
In 1870, 75 Chinese from the West coast were recruited by the Sampson Shoe Factory in North Adams, Massachusetts, to break the strike by the workers of the St. Crispins Guild – an organized labor movement of shoemakers.
One visitor in the 1870s described the scene: “The Chinamen were clothed in plainly-cut blue tunics, had straw or cloth covering their heads, and shoes on their feet resembling slippers down at the heels. The shops were adorned with pendant flags bearing inscriptions in Chinese.
May 13, 2019 · But as the anti-Chinese movement emerged in the 1870s — which included massacres, riots, evictions and legal restrictions on where Chinese immigrants could live and work — rural Chinatowns ...
May 25, 2017 · History of San Francisco’s Chinatown. The Chinese diaspora, which began in the 1800s, was so vast that virtually every major city in the world—from New York to London, Montreal and Lima—boasts a...
Chinatowns are enclaves of Chinese people outside of China. The first Chinatown in the United States was San Francisco's Chinatown in 1848, and many other Chinatowns were established in the 19th century by the Chinese diaspora on the West Coast.