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This is a list of notable Chinese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants who have made exceptional contributions to various facets of American society.
An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America, San Francisco (Design Enterprises) 1979, ISBN 0-932538-01-0; Pfaelzer, Jean. Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans. (Random House, 2007). ISBN 1-4000-6134-2; Teitelbaum, Michael and Robert Asher, eds. (2004) Chinese Immigrants (Immigration to the United States). ISBN 0-8160-5687-0
The 2021 U.S. Census also reports that 64.9% of Chinese American men and 61.3% of Chinese American women work in an elite white-collar profession, compared to 57.5% for all Asian Americans, and is a little more than one and a half times above the national average of 42.2%. [112]
List of overseas Chinese; Migration in China; Kapitan Cina; List of politicians of Chinese descent; Overseas Chinese banks; Legislation on Chinese Indonesians; Chinese Exclusion Act (Scott Act, 1888 and Geary Act, 1892) in United States; Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 and Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 in Canada; Chinese head tax and 1886 ...
This is a partial list of people who were paper sons or daughters: Tyrus Wong – Chinese-born American artist. His paper son name was Look Tai Yow. [22] Jim Wong-Chu – Canadian author, poet, and community activist of Chinese descent. Jim Wong-Chu came to Canada in 1953 at age four as a paper son, to live with his aunt and uncle in British ...
Waves of Chinese emigration have happened throughout history. They include the emigration to Southeast Asia beginning from the 10th century during the Tang dynasty, to the Americas during the 19th century, particularly during the California gold rush in the mid-1800s; general emigration initially around the early to mid 20th century which was mainly caused by corruption, starvation, and war ...
In the 1920s, an additional 30,000 Chinese arrived; the immigrants were exclusively male. In 1980, 4000 Chinese lived there, but by 2002, only 300 pure Chinese were left. [12] 1.6% of Cuban population have direct East Asian male paternal ancestor. [13] One of Cuba's most known Afro-Asians is the artist Wifredo Lam.
As former colonies of Europe, the coastal African nations of Madagascar, Mauritius, and South Africa were the main receiving points of Chinese immigrants from the 1890s to the early part of the 20th century. The early Chinese arrived to labour in the Transvaal gold mines of South Africa and on the Tananrive Tamatave railway of Madagascar. Many ...