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Title: Chinese in the United States: growth, dispersal and integration

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Chinese Americans consist of new immigrants, naturalized citizens, and second- and third-generation children of previous immigrants. Although Chinese were one of the earliest Asian groups in the United States (coming in large numbers during the California Gold Rush in 1849), most of the Chinese population today is quite new. Figure 10.1 shows that there were only 63,000 Chinese in 1870 and the number climbed to 107,000 in 1890. After that time, as a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the number declined and it was not until 1950 that the number again reached above 100,000. After the repeal of the Exclusion Act in 1943 and . . .

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Authors: Zhang, Weiwei; Logan, John R.

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Pages: 215-237

Volume Title: Handbook of Chinese Migration

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

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