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Hazel Ying Lee (李月英) – first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a Woman Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) Kurt Lee – Major, US Marine Corps.; first Asian American Marine Corps officer, Navy Cross recipient [7] [8]
Polly Bemis (September 11, 1853 – November 6, 1933) was a Chinese American pioneer who lived in Idaho in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her story became a biographical novel , and was the subject of the 1991 film Thousand Pieces of Gold .
Afong Moy was the first known female Chinese immigrant to the United States. [6] [7] In 1834, Moy was brought from her hometown of Guangzhou to New York City by traders Nathaniel and Frederick Carne, and exhibited as "The Chinese Lady".
She treated the local Chinese American population as well as celebrities such as Sophie Tucker, Helen Hayes, and Tallulah Bankhead. [2] Her practice was one of the few which would provide Chinese and Chinese Americans with Western medical care during a time when hospitals would often turn them away. [4] In 1925, San Francisco's Chinese Hospital ...
Of the first wave of Chinese who moved to America, few were women. In 1850, the Chinese community of San Francisco consisted of 4,018 men and only seven women. By 1855, women made up only two percent of the Chinese population in the United States, and even by 1890 this had only increased to 4.8 percent.
[2] [5] In 2013, she co-wrote History of the Organization of Chinese American Women, which covers the first three decades of the organization's history, with Puanani Woo. [7] [8] Tsui died in 2018. [2] The following year, she was posthumously named as a member of the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame.
Only Asian American naval recipient of the Medal of Honor; Eleanor Valentin – rear admiral (lower half), Medical Corps, U.S. Navy. Commander, Naval Medical Support Command [33] Francis B. Wai – captain, U.S. Army. Only Chinese American to have been awarded the Medal of Honor; Ehren Watada – first lieutenant, U.S. Army.
In the 1960s census showed 3,500 Chinese men married to white women and 2,900 Chinese women married to white men. [13] Originally at the start of the 20th century there was a 55% rate of Chinese men in New York engaging in interracial marriage which was maintained in the 1920s but in the 1930s it slid to 20%. [14]