Early Chinese Settlers in North Carolina and a Celebrated Methodist Missionary and Business Leader of Modern China
Fan Jiao (焦凡) Unlike California, where the Gold Rush gave rise to large Chinese settlements, and Texas, where railroad construction and border commerce quickly fostered Chinese communities, North Carolina’s Chinese population remained relatively small and geographically dispersed throughout the nineteenth century. Most Chinese immigrants made their living by operating family-run laundries and restaurants. Beginning in […]






