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The Chinese in America

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by Iris Chang


  Communist revolution (1949)

  Comstock Lode

  Confucianism coolies (k’u-li)

  Cooper, Chris

  Cooper, Grant B.

  Cox, Christopher

  Crocker, Charles

  Crocker, E. B.

  Cuban

  Cubic Air law (1870)

  Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

  Dana, Richard Henry

  Deng Jiaxian

  Deng-Reagan pact

  Deng Xiaoping

  Densmore, John deportation

  Der, Henry

  Dershowitz, Alan

  Der Spiegel

  Deutch, John

  Donaldina Cameron House Dong Zem

  Dorney P S. dotcoms

  Drumwright, Everett F. due process, right of

  Dunn, Robert

  Durant, Thomas

  East Coast. See also specific cities

  East Coast Asian Student Union

  East/West

  Eaton, Edith Maud

  Ebens, Ronald

  economic crises, Chinese

  economic crises, U.S.. See also specific crises

  education. See also universities and colleges, U.S.: of American-born Chinese; bilingual; in California; in China; of Chinese in United States ; integration of ; in Mississippi; Qing dynasty exchange program; racial quotas in; racism in ; in San Francisco; segregation of; in Taiwan ; of women

  80/20

  El Dorado County

  employment. See also specific occupations: in California; in China; of Chinese Americans ; racism in ; during World War II

  Eng, Andy

  Eng, Phoebe

  equal protection, right of

  Eu, March Fong

  European immigrants

  exclusion laws: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). See Chinese Exclusion Act (1882); Geary Act (1892); repeal of; Scott Act (1888)

  Expatriation Act of 1907

  factories and factory workers . See also garment industry

  Fair Employment Practice Commission, California State

  Families with Children from China

  family and family life . See also children; Gold Mountain families

  Fang Lizhi

  Far, Sui Sin. See Eaton, Edith Maud farming and farm workers

  Fatal Hour, The

  Father and Glorious Descendant (Lowe)

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  Federal Emergency Relief Act

  Fifteenth Amendment

  Fifth Academy of National Defense

  Fifth Chinese Daughter (Wong)

  film and film industry First Sino-Japanese War

  First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California (Fong)

  fishermen

  Flower Drum Song, The (Lee)

  Fong, Harold

  Fong, Hiram Leong

  Fong, Marian

  Fong, Martha

  Fong, Matt

  Fong, Mickey

  Fong, Timothy

  Fong-Torres, Barry

  Fong-Torres, Ben

  Fong Yue Ting v. United States

  food and food customs

  Fook Soo

  foot-binding

  Forbidden City nightclub

  Foreign Assets Control Regulation (1917)

  foreign-born Chinese. See immigrants, Chinese

  forty-niners. See gold rush and gold rushers 4-A (Asian Americans for Affirmative Action)

  Fourteenth Amendment

  Fox News

  France

  fraternities

  Fuchs, Klaus

  Fujian province

  Fuller, Melville

  Fu Manchu

  Fuzhou

  Gai, Feng

  gambling

  Gan, David

  Gao Liqin garment industry

  Gates, Bill

  Geary, John

  Geary Act (1892)

  GI Bill

  Gibson, Otis

  Ging Hawk Club

  Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia

  Gobi Desert

  Golden Dreams and Waking Realities (Shaw)

  Golden Venture

  Gold Hills News

  Gold Mountain families

  gold rush and gold rushers; Chinese experience in; effect on San Francisco; foreign miner’s tax; lawlessness during ; miner’s daily life; prostitution during; wages; water wheel invented

  Good Earth, The (film)

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Grass Valley Indians

  Gray, Horace

  Great Britain

  Great Depression

  Great Leap Forward (1958)

  Great Wall of China grocery stores

  Guangdong province; American money sent to; emigration from ; food supplies in; Gold Mountain families. See Gold Mountain families; merchant class in; mining in; opera troupes; rebellions against Qing dynasty; return to ; transcontinental railroad recruitment in; visits to

  Guangxu

  Gubbins, Tom

  Hakkas

  Hall, George W.

  Han, Yu-shan Han people

  Hapas

  Harper’s New Monthly

  Harper’s Weekly

  Harrigan, Edward

  Hart-Celler Act Harte, Bret

  Harvard University

  Hawaii

  “Heathen Chinee, The” (Harte)

  Hell’s Canyon (Oregon) herbalists

  Hervey, James B.

  Him, Suey

  Hip Sing tong

  Ho, Chinn

  Ho, David

  Ho, Fred

  Hoar, George Frisbie

  Horn, Montgomery home ownership

  Hl-B visa program

  Hong, Kaye

  Hong King

  Hong Kong; “astronauts,” ; author’s family in; British control of; Chinese immigration to ; cold war and; immigration corruption in; immigration from; Japanese capture of; laundry shipped to

  Hong Xiuquan

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hopkins, Mark hospitals, exclusion of Chinese from

  Ho-tai

  Houston & Texas Central Railroad

  Howe, James Wong

  Hsiao Teh Seng

  Hsieh, Tony

  Hsu, Carl

  Hu, Chih-Ming

  Huang Qiming

  Huie Kin

  Hundred Days’ Reform Movement (1898)

  Hung Wai Ching

  Huntington, Collis P.

  Hurley, Patrick

  Hu Yaobang

  Hu Yunxiao

  Hwang, David Henry

  Hwang, Helena

  illegal immigrants and immigration: confession program; during exclusion era; government complicity in; journey of; living conditions; naturalization of; during 1990s, ; paper sons; smuggling of. See smuggling

  immigrants, Chinese. See also Chinese American(s)and American-born Chinese (ABCs); illegal immigrants and immigration; immigration, Chinese; Taiwanese Americans and immigrants: activism of; American-born Chinese to, ratio of; arrival in San Francisco of; assimilation of ; burial rites of; in canning industry; census listing of; Chinese Americans and ; clothing of; dangers faced in journey of; departure from United States of; deportation of; divided loyalties of; downward mobility of ; on East Coast; as employers ; exploitation of other Chinese immigrants by; extortion of ; as factory workers ; family life of. See family and family life; as farmers ; fate of; as fishermen; foreign-born children of; gambling and; garment industry. See garment industry; geographic dispersal of; as gold rushers; grocery stores of; as herbalists; illegal. See illegal immigrants and immigration; ineligibility for citizenship; intellectuals. See intellectuals; intermarriage of; inventions of. See inventions; Irish immigrants and ; journey to United States of ; as laundrymen. See laundrymen; legal action. See legal action, anti-Chinese; legal action by Chinese; living conditions of; male-to-female ratio; mixed-race descendants of; Native Americans and; non-quota ; numbers of ; occupations of . See also specific occupations; othe
r minorities and ; paper sons of ; as plantation workers ; as political refugees ; poverty of; racism against. See racism, anti-Chinese; railroads and ; recruitment of; reentry, right of; reputation of ; as restaurant owners ; in retail trade; return to China by; rights denied to; Sacramento-San Joaquin delta reclamation by; as scribes; social life of; social welfare system and; socioeconomic status of ; solitude of; as strikebreakers; in suburbia; tax burden of; transcontinental railroad and; visits to China by; wages of. See wages and earnings; white responses to. See also racism, anti-Chinese; as witnesses in court ; working conditions

  immigration, Chinese. See also immigrants, Chinese: banning of. See exclusion laws; brokers; to California; corruption alleged; earthquake of 1906’s effect on; to East Coast ; efforts to ban; from Hong Kong; illegal. See illegal immigrants and immigration; during 1950s and 1960s; during 1960s;

  immigration, Chinese (cont.): during 1980s, ; during 1990s, x; during nineteenth century; as one-way trip; periods of; quota for ; reasons for ; regulation of. See immigration laws; from Taiwan. See Taiwanese Americans and immigrants; to Taiwan; two-tiered

  immigration, Taiwanese. See Taiwanese Americans and immigrants

  Immigration Act (1924)

  Immigration Act (1990)

  Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)

  Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)

  Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

  Immigration Council of the Chinese Professionals and Entrepreneurs Association

  immigration laws . See also exclusion laws; specific laws

  immigration officials intellectuals; Chinese civil war and; cold war and; immigration by ; life during 1960s; Nationalist spying on; numbers of ; permanent residence status for; San Francisco community of; spying allegations against; Taiwanese

  Inter-Collegiate Chinese for Social Action

  International Chinese Business Directory of the World (1913) inventions

  Irish immigrants

  I Wor Ken

  Jan, Flora Belle

  Jann, Smiley

  Japan: aggression toward China; automobile industry of; First Sino-Japanese War; “Gentleman’s Agreement,” 161n; Pearl Harbor attack by; Sino-Japanese War; Taiwan and ; U.S. trade deficit with

  Japanese Americans and immigrants; Chinese American and; internment of; in military; Pearl Harbor and; racism against; stereotypes of

  Jen, Gish

  Jeong, Bessie

  Jim Crow laws

  Joe, Ray

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Joy Luck Club, The (Tan)

  Jung, David

  Justice for Vincent Chin Committee

  Kan, Andrew

  Kang Youwei

  Kaufman, Charles

  Kearney, Denis

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kiangnan Machine Works

  Kim, Elaine

  Kim, Hong

  Kim, Lillian Lee

  Kim Il Sung

  Kin, Huie

  Kincaid, Cliff

  King, Martin Luther, Jr. Kingston, Maxine Hong

  Kong Chow Association

  Koon, Chong D.

  Koopmanschap, Cornelius

  Korean War

  Kukka, Christine

  Kung, H. H.

  Kuo, Chia-ling

  Kwan, Michelle

  Kwan, Nancy

  Kwoh, Stewart

  Kwong, Chong, Wing & Company

  labor and labor issues: contracts; conventions; illegal aliens and ; Sino-Japanese War and; strikes ; unions; working conditions

  Lai, Him Mark

  Lai, Jimmy

  Lam, David

  land ownership

  language, Chinese

  Larson, Louise Leung

  Lau, Stanley

  laundrymen-139n

  Lau v. Nichols

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  lawyers

  Lea, Homer

  League of Nations

  Leang, Amy

  Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian (Eaton)

  Lee, Ang

  Lee, Bill

  Lee, Bruce

  Lee, Chin Yang

  Lee, Clarence

  Lee, Dai-ming

  Lee, David

  Lee, Lancing F.

  Lee, Richard

  Lee, Rose Hum

  Lee, Tsung-Dao

  Lee, Wallace

  Lee, Wen Ho

  Lee, Yan Phou

  Lee Chew

  legal action by Chinese -139n. See also activism of Chinese Americans; specific cases

  legislation, anti-Chinese. See also immigration laws; specific laws: in California; China’s response to; Chinese responses to; lapsing of ; in New York City; in San Francisco-139n

  Lem Moon Sing v. United States Leon, William

  Leong, Charlie

  Leong Bick Ha

  Let Keung Mui

  Leung, Alex

  Leung, Bernice

  Leung, Faith So

  Leung, Hugh

  Leung, Lillie

  Leung, Louise

  Leung, Tom

  Leung, Tye

  Li, Wei

  Liang Qichao

  Liang Tun-yen

  Lieu, Ted

  Lim, Harry

  Lin, Chia-Chiao

  Lin, Sam Chu

  Lin, Tung-Yen

  Ling, Dick

  Ling Sing

  LinkExchange

  Lin, Maya

  Lin Zexu

  Liu, Henry

  Liu Haiming

  Liu Zongren

  Locke, Gary

  Loewen, James W.

  London, Jack

  Lone Mountain Cemetery

  Long Island (New York)

  Long March (1934)

  Loo, Bessie

  Loo, Jim

  Look, J. S.

  Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Los Angeles

  Los Angeles Survey of Race Relations (1924)

  Los Angeles Times

  Louie, Clifford

  Louie, Lillian

  Loving v. Virginia

  Low, Charlie

  Low, James

  Lowe, Pardee

  Lowell High School

  Luce, Henry

  Lue Gim Gong

  Luh, Raymond

  Lum Gong Lum Yip Kee

  Lung Chin

  Ma, Theresa

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Macao

  McCarran-Walter Act

  McCarthyism

  McConnell, Mitch

  McCunn, Ruthanne Lum

  McKeown, Adam

  MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

  Madame Chiang Kai-shek Air WACs

  Madisonian

  Magnuson, Warren

  Magnuson Act (1943)

  Maidu Indians

  Main Street (Lewis)

  Manchus/Manchuria . See also Qing dynasty

  Manifest Destiny

  Mao Zedong

  Mar, M. Elaine

  Marginal Man, The (Tsung)

  Mariposa County

  marriage. See also family and family life; arranged; Chinese attitude toward; citizenship and; Confucian ideal of; to foreign-born women; interracial

  Marshall, George C.

  Marshall Plan

  Mar Sui Haw

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology May, Michael

  May Fourth movement (1919)

  Meet the Press

  Mee Yung

  Mexico

  military, U.S.: Chinese in ; Japanese in ; racism in

  Miller, John F.

  Ming dynasty

  mining: gold. See gold rush and gold rushers; in Guangdong province

  missionaries

  Mississippi

  Mississippi Chinese, The (Loewen)

  Mississippi River

  “model minority,” Chinese Americans as

  Mona in the Promised Land (Jen)

  Mongols/Mongolia

  Monson Academy

 
Monterey

  Monterey Park (California)

  Monterey Park Progress

  Moore, Paul

  Morrison Education Society School

  Moy, Afong

  Moy, Eugene

  Murieta, Joaquin

  Murray, Hugh

  My Country Versus Me (Lee)

  Nanjing (Nanking)

  Nation, The

  National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)

  National Archives, U.S.

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  National Dollar Stores

  National People’s Party (Kuomintang) ; Taiwan and ; Taiwanese immigrants and

  National Review

  National Taiwan University

  nation-of-origin requirements

  Native Americans. See also specific tribes: Chinese claimed to be; Chinese immigrants and; racism against

  Naturalization Act (1790)

  NBC Nightly News

  Nevada County

  New Deal

  New Orleans

  newspapers and magazines, Chinese American. See also specific titles

  Newsweek

  New York City

  New York Globe

  New York Labor Standard

  New York State, interracial marriage in

  New York Sun

  New York Times

  New York Tribune

  New York World

  Ng, Franklin

  Nitz, Michael

  Nixon, Richard

  Nobel Prize

  North, the, post-Civil War

  North Adams (Massachusetts)

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  Northern Expedition (1926-28)

  nuclear weapons

  Oliphant, Patrick

  On Gold Mountain (See)

  Onyett, Helen Pon

  Oregon/Oregon Territory

  Organization of Chinese Americans

  O’Sullivan, John L.

  Overland Monthly

  Pacific Mail Steamship company

  Pacific Ocean crossing

  Page, Horace

  Panic of 1873

  Paper Daughter (Mar)

  paper sons

  “parachute” children

  Passage to the Heart, A: Writings from Families with Children from China (Kukka)

  Passaic Steam Laundry

  Pearl Harbor attack

  peasants and peasant life

  Pei. M.

  Peng, Ching

  People’s Republic of China (PRC) ; American concepts of ; criticism of; cultural exchange program of; economic growth of; as global superpower; Great Leap Forward (1958); nuclear capabilities of -395n; one-child policy of ; opening of; orphanages; per capita income ; pro-democracy movement ; Taiwan and; Tiananmen Square massacre (1989); United Nations and; U.S. recognition of

  People v. Hall

  Peterson, William

  Piche, Lloyd

  Piche, Robert

  Pines, David

 

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