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)
- 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)