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  2. Asian Americans in California - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco is 21.4% Chinese, and the San Francisco Bay Area is 8% Chinese. Many of the Chinese Americans are Cantonese-speaking immigrants or descendants from Guangdong province and Hong Kong. There are also many Taiwanese and mainland Chinese immigrants in the Silicon Valley area. The Bay Area in general is 8-9% Chinese.

  3. History of Chinese Americans - Wikipedia

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    When clergy ministering to the Chinese immigrants in California supported the Chinese, they were severely criticized by the local press and populace. [1] So hostile was the opposition that in 1882, the U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act prohibiting immigration from China for the following ten years.

  4. Chinese-Americans in the California Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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    The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a period of American history in which the most amount of gold seen at the time was discovered. The initial discovery of gold in America in 1848 attracted many immigrants who were intent on the opportunity and potential wealth that came with gold mining.

  5. Chinese Americans - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco, California has the highest per capita concentration of Chinese Americans of any major city in the United States, at an estimated 21.4%, or 172,181 people, and contains the second-largest total number of Chinese Americans of any U.S. city. San Francisco's Chinatown was established in the 1840s, making it the oldest Chinatown in ...

  6. Reinterment ceremony honors lives of unknown Chinese pioneers

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    Though immigrants from China started arriving in California and Kern County in the late 1800s, it wasn't until the 20th century that people of Chinese decent were given many legal rights.

  7. This California town ran its Chinese residents out. Now the ...

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    A few hundred Asian immigrants — mostly men — lived in Eureka after a federal law barred immigration from China in 1882.. They toiled in redwood logging camps, laundries and restaurants.

  8. 19th-century Chinese immigration to America - Wikipedia

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    Newly constructed entrance gate to the historic Chinese section of Evergreen Cemetery in Santa Cruz, California. Chinese immigration to America in the 19th century is commonly referred to as the first wave of Chinese Americans, and are mainly Cantonese and Taishanese speaking people.

  9. Chinese in Southern California are sympathetic, worried for ...

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    Some Chinese immigrants expressed solidarity with the protesters. But as videos of police making arrests leak, they worried for the protesters' safety. Chinese in Southern California are ...