Chinese American history

many reasons that the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was an act passed to temporarily prohibit the immigration of the Chinese. In 1892 they extended the the Chinese Exclusion Act, this was known as the Geary Act. The main reason the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed is because of all the chinese immigrants coming from china then filling in jobs were mainly the irish men, and the german men would not work because they did not like the chinese taking their jobs…

During my junior year of high school, my AP United States history teacher showed us a video about 4 Chinese students that had to take a college placement test. This video was enlightening because I had just received my ACT scores back and I had done better than I had expected to do. I did not think about this video again until February of my senior year when I had a Chinese exchange student come and stay with me. Her American name was Tiffany and she was a sophomore at Jian Ping High School, an…

Modern attitudes toward the traditional Chinese practice of footbinding are often harsh and unforgiving, casting it as a barbaric, archaic form of patriarchal torture. While much of the western world has historically been appalled by the custom, in the years since its ban, many Chinese nationals have also vehemently decried it, raising questions as to how and why this practice survived for roughly 700 years. Public audiences tend to consider footbinding a best-forgotten, undesirable tool of…

1200 B.C. where Homer speaks about fire signals and smoke signals in Iliad. In 700 to 300 B.C. there was a usage of postal pigeons in the Olympic Games. History also documents that in 200 B.C. until 100 B.C. messengers on horse or on foot were a common phenomenon in Egypt and China, where there were even stations for supplying them. The Chinese 2000 years before are estimated to have had a system of sending messages through pipes at the Great Wall or two paper cones that were connected with…

extremely important and continues to be highly controversial. Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, is the daughter of Asian immigrants. Chinese immigrants, especially during her childhood, felt a severe sense of displacement. Her father immigrated to the United States in 1947 and her mother, in 1949. After her parents immigrated, she grew up with American and Chinese cultural influences. Tan learned that culture can be passed on and appreciated throughout generations. Culture can be forgotten…

In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the author creates a conflict between a Chinese mother and her daughter. The relationship between the mother who wanted her daughter to be prodigy, and her daughter who refused to be prodigy is presented (43). She uses dialogue, irony, similes and metaphors to illustrate and set her writing. Tan’s main message that stands out in the story is parents-to-kids relationship, in this case mother-to-daughter relationship. With all the details given by the…

Chinese Immigration & Exclusion Act The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed and then signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882. The Act was passed because the Chinese were working 2x as hard for half the pay. Another reason the law was passed was that the other races were jealous that the Chinese were thriving and they were hard-working. The Americans passed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act because the Chinese were working 2x as hard for half the pay. According to Document A: Anti-Chinese Play…

In today’s routine, it is pretty common to find an Asian cuisine restaurant or more specifically the popular Chinese food. Somethings isn’t there question of how Chinese food boom in the United States. Before food comes is the people that have that ethnicity. The most of the first Chinese came to the United States during the Gold Rush. They went to build the railroads, and developed the agricultural industry. Now that the US constitution makes everything else being equal, people from all over…

Chinese Americans The United States is a big country which has enormous influence on other countries. This in fact attracted many individuals to come out of their societies and move to the US. Thus, the US society can be explained as the salad bowl societies, where different cultures exists in one place, but they don’t overrule each other. One of the most important of these groups are Chinese Americans. However, being in a community with a majority of Chinese students attracted me to…

language but instead Chinese Mandarin. Mandarin is the official language of China. How can he theorize that comment, when China has six different dialects? According to Britannica Encyclopedia “These languages include Mandarin in the northern, central, and western parts of China; Wu; Northern and Southern Min; Gan (Kan); Hakka (Kejia); and Xiang; and Cantonese (Yue) in the southeastern part of the country” (Egerod, p.1). He does mention relevant information such as how the Chinese economy and…