The Chinese immigrants who came to California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries faced many challenges and discrimination. Still, they made an irreplaceable and indelible contribution to the development and prosperity of the region
As members of the first racial group to experience exclusion in American history, Chinese Americans will benefit from an understanding of their history. It will allow them to recognize that many of the rights we enjoy today were fought for by those who came before. Additionally, it may unite us under a shared history and allow us to look to the future. This is the ultimate goal of the Historical Record of Chinese Americans’ authors and articles.
Yu Beichi (M) was born November 1927 in Taishan county, Guangdong province. Upon graduation from Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangdong, he worked in the Ministry of Labor in Beijing until his retirement. His family consisted of his mother, father, older brother, and younger sister. His grandfather had left in 1907 to work in America. His father, at 15 years of age, followed Yu’s grandfather to America, and afterwards, his older brother, younger sister, and other friends and relatives left in succession. Only he and his mother were left in China. After the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the author’s son and daughter also left to study in the United States at the end of 1979. After his retirement, the author brought his mother and wife with him to America, thus reuniting the long-separated family. Yu spent 23 years in the United States before returning to Beijing in 2009.
1916年，潘兴将军（John J. Pershing）从墨西哥将427位曾对他领导的墨西哥远征做出重要贡献的华人带回美国。在以后数年内他和同事们坚持不懈地努力，终于在1921年推动国会通过、总统批准29号公共法（Public Law No.29，1921）使他们合法在美国居留，其中大多数人在德州安居乐业。这是在美国自1882年开始连续实行一系列排华法之后，墨西哥也经历内战（1910-1920）的动乱时期。后人称这些华人为”潘兴的华人” (Pershing’s Chinese).
Acacia Yu is a middle school student in Cache Valley, Utah. She has been involved in historical research and skill development since 5th grade and has twice participated in National History Day. This article is based on her research and experience.
作为在美国近代历史上第一个遭到排斥的族裔，美国华人对自己历史的了解不仅有助于他们深切体会到他们目前所具有的各种权利很多都是先辈抗争来的，而且还有助于华人凝聚在共同的历史之下，而这些正是《美华史记》的作者和他们的文章所希望达到的目的。
Author：Xin Su Translator: Ella N. Wu My body, my choice, my rights! Ho Ah Kow, an early fighter for civil rights, won a rare lawsuit Queue Ordinance (or Pigtail Ordinance) of the 1870s. It added a touch of brilliance with Chinese imprints to the history of Americans fighting for civil rights. Ho Ah Kow, a …
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On November 4, 1946 (Year 35 of the Republic of China), the Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China sent Wang Shijie, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, and Wang Huacheng, Director of the Treaty Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, to meet with Leighton Stuart, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of China, and Robert Smyth, Special Commissioner and Consul General of the United States of America at Tianjin. The men met in a conference room on the third floor of the Nanjing National Executive Yuan to sign the Treaty of Friendship, Commence and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of China, commonly known as the “Sino-American Treaty of Friendship, Commence and Navigation” or “Sino-American Commerce Treaty“
story, but also because the protests invoked by Vincent’s death revealed the power of pan-Asian unity, collective action, and community mobilization.
political struggle and corruption in American society had arguably made Chinatown to be a place filled with vices, violence, and bloody battles, which aggravated the plight of the Chinese whose life had deteriorated since the Chinese Exclusion Act. This kind of situation had not seen any improvement until 1921 and after 1931 it finally disappeared.