Chinese History Publications
Chinese America: History & Perspectives
http://www.chsa.org/publications/history-perspectives A publication of the Chinese Historical Society of America, its articles provide insight into historic, social, and cultural development of Chinese American communities nationally. Chung Sai Yat Po Newspaper Collections on microfilm at University of California, Berkeley http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0g5016h6/entire_text/ Issues from 1900–1905 are held at the Ethnic Studies Library with selected issues digitized and available online. The 1906–1950 microfilmed issues are held by the East Asian Library. Heritage Collection of the Chinatown Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library & Central Library
Click Here to see a list of print sources found in the Heritage Collection of the Chinatown Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library and the Central Library in downtown, Los Angeles. |
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
By John Pomfret
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day
https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Country-Middle-Kingdom-America/dp/0805092501
By John Pomfret
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day
https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Country-Middle-Kingdom-America/dp/0805092501
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (2010)
Amazon by Erika Lee and Judy Yung. Based on extensive new research and oral histories, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America examines the great diversity of immigration through Angel Island: Chinese "paper sons," Japanese picture brides, Korean refugee students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino workers, and many others. Together, their stories offer a more complete and complicated history of immigration to America than we have ever known. Although not exclusively about the Chinese experience, 70 percent of those who passed through Angel Island were Chinese. Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion Curriculum Guide
These classroom materials provide an abundance of information for educators who are teaching about immigration policies, the Chinese American experience, or the Chinese Exclusion laws. Click the image above or here to download the packet. Here are some helpful tips in regards to navigating this resource. https://chsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Chinese-American-Classroom-Materials-1.pdf |
Special Issue The Hawai‘i Chinese: Their Experience and Identity Over Two Centuries 2010 - CHINESE AMERICA
History&Perspectives the Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America - Chinese Historical Society of America with UCLA Asian American Studies Center Journal of the Chinese Experience in Hawaii https://chsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CHSA_HP2010.pdf |