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The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States includes three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States, beginning in the 19th century. Chinese immigrants in the 19th century worked in the California Gold Rush of the 1850s and the Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s.
The Chinese American experience has been documented at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan's Chinatown since 1980. Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute a subgroup of East Asian Americans which also constitute a subgroup of Asian Americans.
This is a list of notable Chinese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants who have made exceptional contributions to various facets of American society.
Wong even was the first to coin the term “Chinese American” which is still used to identify a group of over 5 million people in the United States. Today, the Chinese American identity has been absorbed into the American experience with food, culture, and media.
1 cze 2020 · Chinese cultural influence reached North America and influenced the American founders as they pondered how to build a new nation. Chinese agricultural, philosophical, and architectural beliefs and practices affected the US in both material and nonmaterial ways.
Despite their legal and cultural exclusion, Chinese Americans fought in wars and helped to shape American society. World War II precipitated changes to the American government’s historical neglect of the Chinese American community.
30 mar 2004 · In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a...
