Chinese Immigration Into America
Surprisingly, Asian Americans have been in America for over 150 years.
They are as diverse as the immigrants from Europe, ranging from China, Japan,
Korea, Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, India, Vietnam, and Laos. (Takaki, page 8)
When many people think of American Immigrants, Asians are on the last of their
lists. In The Uprooted, Harvard historian, Oscar Handlin, prize winning book
with the subtitle "the Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American
People," completely left out the "uprooted" from the lands across the Pacific
Ocean. (Takaki, page 10) This paper will give some information pertaining to
the Chinese immigration into America.
China is one of the world's ...
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because of the myth of the Gam Saan ("Golden Mountain.") Other reasons were
due to overpopulation, poverty, hunger, flooding, high taxes, bad economy,
collapsing government, and crop failure. (Takaki, page 38) James Marshall
discovery of gold in California in 1848 prompted many Chinese to take a sojourn
into America to get rich quick. A young man in Canton wrote to his brother in
Boston saying, "good many Americans speak of California, Oh! Very rich
country! O hear good many Americans and Europeans go there very much. I think
I shall go to California next summer." Stories like these built up this dream
of the "Golden Mountain." The plan for most Chinese was to make their
fortune, and return home to their family. The dream of getting rich quick has
been around for ages. Due to this, a trickle of immigrants turned into a deluge.
The whole thing began in 1835. William Hooper, a young man from Boston,
visited a sugar mill in Hawaii. He became determined ...
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to as the "buying and selling of pigs."
(Melendy, page 13) Hawaii made use of this practice in order to fulfill the
great demand of the booming sugar industry. In 1962, the United States congress
prohibited American citizens in American vessels from engaging in such
activities. However, the laws were easily evaded, and not strictly enforced.
American Business man knew they needed a labor force. This gave way to
the "unnumbered millions" of workers in Asia. (Takaki, page 28) In an 1869
magazine article called "Our Manufacturing Era," a writer named Henry Robinson
described California's enormous economic potential. He stated that, "If Chinese
labor could be used to develop the ...
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