...This chapter focuses on the Chinese immigration to Hawaiʻi. Its history is unique in the history of Chinese moving to the West, inasmuch as those who came to Hawaiʻi were not immigrating to the United States of America but to the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, with its ethnic mix of peoples quite different...

...This chapter examines the characteristics of an ethnoburb in order to provide a theoretical explanation of the process of ethnoburb formation as well as a general portrait of the ethnoburb population. Focusing on the Chinese ethnoburb in Los Angeles, it considers where the area's Chinese immigrants...

...This chapter examines the trajectories of some ethnoburban subgroups by providing portraits of individual Chinese immigrants in order to personalize the hurdled masses of Chinese residents and business owners in San Gabriel Valley in 2000. It first takes a look at American-born Chinese...

...This is a striking, original portrait of the Chinese Six Companies (Zhonghua huiguan), or Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, the most prominent support organization for Chinese immigrants in the United States in the late nineteenth century. As a federation of “native-place associations...

... in the United States, it considers the challenges faced by the Chinese during this period, with particular emphasis on Chinese merchants who were victims of the anti-Chinese movement and the crusade against Chinese immigration. It then discusses the Qing legation’s enlistment of the Six Companies to deal...

...This chapter examines how Chinese immigrants transferred their huiguan tradition to the United States during the 1850s and formed many native-place associations for self-defense and mutual aid. It begins with an overview of California’s early market economy and goes on to discuss...

...This chapter examines the emergence of modern Chinese nationalism in California during the 1860s. It begins with a discussion of Chinese immigration in the 1860s and the factors that influenced Chinese settlement patterns in California, along with the violence against Chinese immigrants...

... settlement in the United States before 1965, focusing on the anti-Chinese sentiment that Chinese immigrants had to endure and the legislation passed by Congress to address Chinese immigration, including the Chinese Exclusion Act and the War Brides Act, and how the Chinese tried to cope with the harsh...

...This chapter examines three family memoirs that center on generational stories of Chinese immigrants in America: Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men (1980), Lisa See's On Gold Mountain (1995), and Bruce Edward Hall's Tea That Burns (1998). All three...

... that led Chinese immigrants to the United States, including the overseas expansion of the Cantonese market economy and the pull of California. It also discusses the role of the market economies of Guangdong, Britain, and California, with particular emphasis on Canton’s own commercial activities, British...