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The publication said The Chinese in America misses that book's "gravity and grace" but still is "a solid addition in a far-from-exhausted field". [54] As part of an undergraduate course, Henry Yu, a history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, had his students read The Chinese in America. Yu said that they enjoyed the book.
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Academy Award-nominated director Arthur Dong.. From early films like the 1900s Beheading the Chinese Prisoner to Ang Lee's triumphant Brokeback Mountain in 2005, Dong uses clips of more than 100 films and interviews of prominent Chinese Americans to create a thorough overview on the ...
Far East Deep South is a 2020 American documentary film about a Chinese American family's journey to search for their family roots. Instead of leading them to the Far East to a remote village in China, it took them to the deep south into the small town of Cleveland in the Mississippi Delta.
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".
Films created by members of the Chinese American community, as well as American films starring a majority Chinese origin cast and Chinese films set in America. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
At first only a handful of Chinese came, mainly as merchants, former sailors, to America. The first Chinese people of this wave arrived in the United States around 1815. Subsequent immigrants that came from the 1820s up to the late 1840s were mainly men.
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Asian Americans is a five-hour PBS documentary film series made by ITVS, WETA, and the Center for Asian American Media. [1] [2] [3] The series focus on the history of Asian and Asian American people in the United States and first aired on May 11, 2020.