China is the dragon. So youve got the dragon, and you have the great wall. And then the people, the men in this frame, are the men of guangdong province, or canton, where most chinese who came in 160 years ago came from. And the work that they did there was very difficult. They were farmers. They were laborers. Robert and that brings us to sue the second frame is where you have the man looking or hearing about the lure of Gold Mountain of america, of california particularly, and contemplating probably that he would be leaving his family behind his wife, his child, his children. And who knew when he would see them again . And yet, he did leave, because he needed to make a living and make sure that his family would be in good economicin a good economic situation, and searching for a better life, so he left. Robert historian connie young yus family was one of those pioneering families. Robert so what are we walking on . Connie young yu were walking on railroad ties, and i think its very s
Historians in arlington, virginia. Professors, authors, and graduate students about the research. This interview is about 20 minutes. Steve as it history professor, you focus on chinese american before and after world war ii. Take us back to this. Brooks you lived under the shadow of the chinese exclusion act, which is a law passed in 1882 that actually surveyed all chinese immigration to the United States. People forget that today the chinese were once looked upon as undesirable, just because of their race. Chineseamericans growing up at were born in they the United States, they could be amounts, and the tiny allowed in could not naturalize, they could not become citizens. In many ways, you are marginal, you are not a real citizen. When they went out into the world, they could not get a job. They were treated as third class citizens, if their citizenship was actually taken seriously at all. It was a really difficult time. Course, it was made worse. About,ple im writing their children,
Citizens aced on american law, so they grew up in American Society that rejected them. In a chinese American Society that was at odds with their experience growing up in american schools and an american amosphere, trying to find life, the Chinese Community was isolated from the rest of American Society. What was it like . You had the great depression, the start of world war ii, and a transformation during that time had thely and you chinese american chinese immigrants trying to assimilate as best they could. That chinese immigrants had been coming since before the turn of the century but it was a tiny trickle and they were just not allowed in. So it is their children im focused on and they grew up in an era in which there was growing patriotism about china. Hada had been an empire and fallen into warlordism. Under theeen reunited nationalist party and a lot of chineseamericans were proud of this. America marginalized in and they are often indignant about their status as american citize
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