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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.
The Chinese Americans' struggle for success, its costs and tenuousness, are major themes in Chang's highly readable, panoramic history of Chinese American immigration from the Gold Mountain generation to the present.
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.
The identity “Chinese American” began as a way for recently immigrated Chinese citizens to claim their “Americanness” to assimilate better into a country that often alienated anyone who wasn’t white, Protestant, and male while simultaneously remembering their Chinese heritage.
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 destiny...
17 cze 2021 · Iris Chang, the daughter of second-wave Chinese immigrants, has written a narrative that encompasses the entire history of one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day.
15 paź 2021 · Papers from the Sixth Chinese American Conference, held July 9-11, 1999 and hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of Greater San Diego and Baja California. Includes bibliographical references and index.
