Phoenix has been a somewhat small-scale magnet for Chinese immigrants since the late nineteenth century. Chinese immigrants were involved in building railroads from California to Arizona in the 1870s, as well as in silver mining and grocery store and restaurant businesses. Despite this long settlem...
The United States and Australia treated the Chinese badly. Brought in to work on building America’s railroads, they were accused of stealing jobs from the whites. Chinese gold miners in Australia faced the same accusation. Both countries enacted anti-Chinese immigration laws; the US Chinese Exclu...
Many worked on building America’s first railroads. Then, in 1882, the United States banned Chinese immigration. Hostility (敌意) toward the Chinese led to the creation of Chinatowns. Steve Wong tells about how the neighborhoods developed. He said, “Without being able to bring in families ...
This chapter documents the building of contemporary Chinese American identity and community in metropolitan Phoenix through Phoenix Chinese Week, an annual celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Due to its geographical proximity to California, and its role as one of the major settlement centers in...
and the 155th anniversary of the completion of the American Transcontinental Railroad, formerly known as the Pacific Railroad. A year ago, on November 15, Chinese President Xi Jinping mentioned the story of Chinese workers who contributed to building the Pacific Railroad 158 years ago in his ...
The strenuous work involved in building America's railroads was dangerous and many workers died during the construction process.One immigrant describedhow, during the journey to one of the work sites, several workers died of an epidemic and were buried quickl...
In 1948, it was excavated with a bulldozer, the remains found were returned to China, and a building was erected on the site. In 2004, when Multnomah County planned to sell the property, Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery notified the Chinese community, and with the help of the Chinese ...
Chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the American West. As Chinese laborers grew successful in the United States, many became entrepreneurs in their own right. As the number of Chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-Chinese sentiment among other ...
The East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has been hailed as a “contemporary classic of singular grandeur.” The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was completed in 1979, the same year that Pei won the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects. His ...
Chinese workers were recruited by Central Pacific for the extremely dangerous work of building the tracks, eventually making up 90% of the labor force for the railroad. After it was finished in 1869, many Chinese immigrants settled here in Colorado, looking for gold. ...