This is a compilation of recent articles related to the history (much of it immigration) of the Chinese in America. You can use these articles in your argumentative essay writing as evidence to back up your thesis or mini-arguments, or just browse for general information.

-Chris

• Nation's only rural Chinatown gets new lease on life (05/11/2002, AP)
• CHINESE IN THE FRONTIER WEST - An American Story (ANCESTORS IN THE AMERICAS television series)
• Historic fishing village preserved for posterity (01/11/2002, SF Chronicle)
• Sisters preserve family legacy in temple used by long-gone Chinese community (12/31/2001, AP)
• Asians Buy Land in Calif. Delta Town (06/09/2001, AP)
• Chinese Immigration to the United States (05/12/2001, from Needham High School, Needham, Massachusetts, USA)
• Ancestors in the Americas - Series Overview (03/22/2001, Center for Educational Telecommunications)
• Keeping Tabs On Chinatown (03/10/2001, SF Chronicle)
• Guardian of Angel Island Memories (01/26/2001, SF Chronicle)
• Cleveland Journal: Delta Chinese Hang On to a Vanishing Way of Life (11/01/2000, NY Times)
• Chinese have fought hard for their rights (09/30/2000, SJ Mercury)
• 1877 anti-Chinese riot aborted (09/25/2000, article by Murray Lee)
• Chinese Historical and Cultural Project - based in the Santa Clara County
• Chinese Exclusion Act - document of the infamous Act
• A History of the Chinese in California - A Syllabus - only the table of contents
• Chinese American History - Time Line
• Chinese American Museum
• American Anti-Chinese History Time Line
• Chinese emigration and exclusion: a chronology - From the Chinese Historical Society of New England
• Chinese American Milestones (LA Times article)
• Story of San Francisco's Chinatown
• Heinlenville, San Jose's original Chinatown
• Of Chinese Descent - Photographs of early Chinese Americans
• The Chinese Boycott - Essay written in 1906 documenting the relationship between Chinese and Americans at that time
• Interrogations of Chinese Immigrants at Angel Island - Experience of some early Chinese immigrants during the anti-Chinese days
• Angel Island: enforcing the Chinese exclusion act
• Does my future lie in China or America? - Article dated 1936, New York
• Chinese American hoopsters dazzled fans - First and only Asian American professional basketball team, circa 1939
• Chinese Community Forum
• Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
• Chinese-American Demographics and Snapshot - based on the 1990 statistical data
• Outstanding Chinese Students being Discriminated in California
• Competition Heats Up in the Chinese Newspaper Business in America
• Elusive American Dream
• American Chinese Family Violence
• The Big Apple Sweatshop
• Developments among Chinese in America
• Chinese Culture Takes Root in the US
• The Exploited Chinese Immigrants in USA
• Chinese Students Stay Aboard for Good Life
• The Chinese Experience in America
• Adjusting to a New Society - A Study of Educated Chinese Women's Acculturation in the United States
• Why US-China Relation Matters to All Chinese Americans
• Labor so Cheap
• Sweet and Sour Via the Subway
• Gateway to Latin America - Chinatown in Miami
• Strife Among the Sons and Saviors - Developments in San Francisco's Chinatown
• The Chinese Beverly Hills - Monterey Park, California
• In Living Color
• Asian Americans in higher education
• Hollywood Dream and Chinese Laundry - readings on the Chinese American experience
• Linking the Past to Present - Asian, especially Chinese, Americans Then and Now
• Stories behind SinaNet - A Californian web site bringing the Chinese culture to Americans
• Seattle Chinese Post & Northwest Asian Weekly - Chinese news to immigrants
• Kids learn Chinese at Berkeley school - Chinese bicultural program opens to all kids
• Chinese American Christians - Information and resource centre for ministry and social issues
• Experiences as a "Parachute Kid" - Feelings of young Taiwanese immigrants in the U.S.
• Chinese Americans: The Model Minority - Myths and facts
• Brutal killings galvanised Asian anger - In memory of the killings of Vincent Chin and Jim Loo Ming-hai
• I'm from America - First place essay by Cynthia Huong
• The Chinese in Hawaii
• Coming to America - The Life of Taiwanese Seniors in the US
• Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor - Book review (06/12/98, Asiaweek)
• Disney film a touchstone for Chinese-Americans (06/19/98, SJ Mercury) Mulan
• Mulan is a joy for Asian-American actors
• UC chancellor gaining momentum for federal post
• Here's Johnny--creating a Chinese conspiracy
• Indonesia's Hidden Victims: Why persecution of ethnic Chinese is an Asian American issue
• S.F. Schools Keep Race Caps for Now
• Chinese Lantern Festival brightens San Francisco pier
• Shooting in San Francisco Chinatown
• Ambivalent Support for Clinton's Trip
• What I Don't Know About China
• New Gold Mountain: Despite the crisis, young Asian-Americans look East (07/09/98, FEER)
• Program Lets Young Chinese Americans Discover Their Identity (07/06/98, LA Times)
• Rising Numbers Bring Greater Influence--and Sometimes Greater Problems (07/12/98, LA Times)
• Gore inspires convention-goers at the Organization of Chinese Americans (07/23/98, AsianWeek)
• Schools scramble to deal with the bilingual-education ban (07/23/98, AsianWeek)
• Bad News for Asian American Journalists (08/21/98, AsianWeek)
• S.F. School Board Has an Asian Face - Finally (08/21/98, AsianWeek)
• A New Fashion Sensibility (08/21/98, AsianWeek)
• Character Building: Beijing and Taipei fight for young minds in the U.S. (10/24/98, FEER)
• Festival Takes the (Moon) Cake (09/24/98, AsianWeek)
• Let Us Learn English (On Bilingual Education) (09/24/98, AsianWeek)
• H-1B Visas: Virtue or Vice? (10/01/98, AsianWeek)
• Chinese Children Learn Language and Heritage (10/11/98, LA Times)
• Boxer, Fong and their supporters face off in Chinatown (10/15/98, AsianWeek)
• "China-Man" Costumes for Halloween - News report from Sinanet, in Chinese
• FROM GOLD MOUNTAIN TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM - The Sixth Chinese American Conference, July 9-11, 1999, San Diego, California
• Wu Heads To The House (11/06/98, The Oregonian)
• Chinatown battle boils over turtles, frogs (11/10/98, San Jose Mercury)
• Food Workers Sue Over Firings, Pay (11/26/98, AsianWeek)
• Urban renewal is driving Washington's Chinatown to the brink (12/98, ASIA INC)
• Laid to Rest Again--in a New Land (12/02/98, LA Times)
• Remembering the Darkness (12/03/98, AsianWeek)
• Irvine Grows as Chinese Gateway (12/07/98, LA Times)
• Chinese Smuggling Ring Made $170M (12/10/98, NY Times)
• Asian American Trend Reflected in Crime, Breakdown of Families (12/15/98, LA Times)
• Ethnic Quotas in S.F. Schools Are Under Siege (12/18/98, SF Chronicle)
• Why Chinatown's venerable associations are ending up in court (01/14/99, AsianWeek)
• Response by Edward Liu
• A revitalized Honolulu Chinatown attracts new enterprise (March 1999, ASIA INC)
• The Chinese Cultural Garden at San Jose - Student project at San Jose State University
• Oakland Chinatown Without Bounds (04/25/99, NY Times)
• S.J. Chinatown unearthed (05/30/99, SJ Mercury)
• An Urban Oasis for Confucius to Ponder (06/10/99, NY Times)
• Preserving Angel Island station (06/15/99, SJ Mercury)
• 80-20 Initiative -- Organization advocates liberty and justice for Asian Americans
• Pictorial History of Early Chinese Immigrants -- web site managed by A-Better.COM
• Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs - comprehensive study done by Public Policy Institute of California
• Little Asias, Across Dixie (07/25/99, NY Times)
• Notes on LA Chinatown (12/09/99, LA Times)
• Pasadena Chinese-American community has persevered and prospered (02/03/2000, LA Times)
• San Francisco Chinatown (02/19/2000, KRON-TV)
• S.F. then and now: Between the Bridges of the Sun and the Moon (02/20/2000, SF Examiner)
• Best Chinese food in Los Angeles's new Sino-suburbs (January 1999, Atlantic Monthly)
• CHINATOWN - the last foreign country in New York City (April 1999, American Heritage)
• Chinatown club in step with the times (03/16/2000, SF Examiner)