The Chinese in America (72 page)

Ah Sam

Ah Sin
(Harte and Twain)

Ah Toy

Alien Land Act (1913)

American Bureau for Medical Aid to China

American 14th Air Service Group

American Friends of China

American Medical Association

Amoy

Angel Island

Anglo names

Arthur, Chester

Asian American Dreams
(Zia)

Asian Americans.
See also specific groups:

Chinese Americans and; land ownership by; racism against

Asian Americans for Affirmative Action (4-A)

Asian American studies

Au, Yat-Pang

Autry Museum of Western Heritage

baby boom

Bancroft, Hubert H.

Bannock Indians

Barnum, Phineas T.

Barron, Milton L.

Bayard, Thomas Francis

Beijing

Beijing University

Bemis, Polly and Charlie

Bertillon system

Biggers, Earl Derr

Bigler, John

bilingual education

Bing, William Der

Bliss, A. Henry

Boggs, Grace Lee

Boggs, James

Borthwick, J. D.

Boxer Rebellion (1900)

boycott of American goods by China

brokers, immigration

brothels

Brown, S. R.

Brown University

Buck, Pearl

Bunker, Chang and Eng

burial rites

Burke, Lloyd

Burlingame, Anson

Burlingame, Fanny

Burlingame Treaty (1868)

Bush, George H. W

Bush, George W

businessmen

Cable Act (1922)

Cai, Nengying

California.
See also specific cities; specific counties;
Alien Land Act (1913) ; census figures; Chinese immigration to; Committee on Mines and Mining; commutation tax ; competition for jobs in; Criminal Proceeding Act; departure of Chinese from; education in ; employment of Chinese in; Fair Employment Practice Commission ; as Gold Mountain; gold rush. See gold rush and gold rushers; Great Depression and; journey to; laws, anti-Chinese ; numbers of Chinese in; Proposition ; racial quotas in; racism in.
See
racism, anti-Chinese; School Law of 1870; settling of; slavery in; statehood of; taxation of foreign miners by; women in

California Institute of Technology

Cameron, Donaldina

Canada

canning industry

Canton

Carter, Jimmy

census

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Central Pacific Railroad Corporation

Chan, Charlie

Chan, Ronnie

Chan Chung Wing

Chang, Cheng-Cheng

Chang, Gordon

Chang, Jung

Chang, Min-Chueh

Chang, Morris

Chang, Sam

Chang Yitang Chao, Elaine

Chao, Rosalind

Chen, Kuan Nan “Johnny,”

Chen, Lawrence

Chen, Lilac

Chen, Pehong

Cheng, S. J. Benjamin

Chen Ke

Chen Lanbing

Chennault, Anna

Chen Wencheng

Chen Yuxi

Chern, Sing-Shen

Cheung, Katherine

Chew, Beng

Chew, Ng Poon

Chew, Thomas Foon

Chew, William Chiang, Joseph

Chiang Kai-shek

Chicago

children: American-born.
See
Chinese American(s) and American-born Chinese (ABCs); in China ; foreign-born, citizenship right for ; girls, adoption of; of Hong Kong immigrants; identity crises of; indoctrination of; mixed-race; one-child policy
;
racism against, effects of; return to Fujian province of; smuggling of ; in Taiwan; Taiwanese “parachute,” ; working

Chin, James W

Chin, Ko-lin

Chin, Lily

Chin, Vincent

Chin, Won-Loy

China.
See also
People’s Republic of China (PRC); Republic of China;
specific cities; specific provinces:
American capital banned in; Boxer Rebellion (1900) ; boycott of American goods in; civilization of; civil service system; civil war; clothing customs; Communist Party; Communist Revolution (1949) ; concession areas; corruption of; Cultural Revolution (1966-76); culture of; decline as world power; diversity of; education in; emigration policies of; employment of American-born Chinese in; ethnic minorities; examinationsservice ; First Sino-Japanese War; food supplies; geography of; Gold Mountain families.
See
Gold Mountain families; government of.
See also
Qing dynasty; Hundred Days’ Reform Movement (1898); inland; isolation of; Japanese aggression toward; life expectancy in; Long March (1934); May Fourth movement (1919); merchant class in ; as meritocracy; Nationalists. See National People’s Party (Kuomintang); Northern Expedition (1926-28); opium trade in; peasant life. See peasants and peasant life; People’s Republic of. See People’s Republic of China (PRC); population of; port cities.
See also specific cities;
poverty in; prisons; professional class; prosperity in; rebellions in ; recruitment of workers in; Red Turban rebellion (1853); Republic of; ruling class ; Sino-Japanese War; study of, in American schools; travel in; United States and, relations between.
See
Sino-American relations; U.S. military in; wealth and upper classes in; western; Western concepts of; working class; written language of

Chinatown, Chicago’s

Chinatown, New York’s

Chinatown, San Francisco’s; architecture of; businesses in ; Chinese civil war and;

conditions in; earthquake of 1906 and; living conditions;

nightclubs; origins of;

prostitution in; quarantine of ; tourism in

Chinatowns.
See also specific Chinatowns
; Chinese civil war and ; decline of; East Coast; exodus from; government surveillance of; Great Depression, effect on; high rents in ; myths about; numbers of; old versus new immigrants in ; Taiwanese and; violence in

China Workers Mutual Aid Association

China Youth Club

Chinese: as “black,” ; concepts of United States held by ; as sideshow curiosities; slavery of; travel by

Chinese American(s) and American-born Chinese (ABCs).
See also
immigrants, Chinese; Taiwanese Americans and immigrants; as activists ; African Americans and; ancestry of; Asian Americans and; assimilation of ; author’s experience as ; China and, relation between ; citizenship rights of; cold war and; contributions of; credit systems of; cultural identity of ; departure from United States prevented; earliest; economic losses in China by; education of; employment opportunities .
See also specific occupations;
foreign-born and, ratio between; fragility of rights of ; Japanese Americans and ; job discrimination against ; leisure activities of; in military; mixed-race; as “model minority,” ; Native Americans and;

Chinese American(s) and American-born Chinese (ABCs) (
cont.
): new immigrants and; numbers of; other immigrants and; Pearl Harbor attack and; prosperity of; racism against. See racism, anti-Chinese; reentry, right of ; regions populated by; return to China by; role models lacking for; sex differences in upbringing; Sino-Japanese War and; social life of ; stereotypes of ; in suburbia; women.
See
women, Chinese American; World War II and

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA)

Chinese Educational Mission

Chinese Empire Reform Association

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882); amendments to; circumvention of ; early efforts to pass; effects of; expiration of; subsequent acts

Chinese for Affirmative Action

Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance

Chinese Immigration and the Physiological Causes of the Decay of the Nation
(Stout)

Chinese Intellectuals and the West
(Wang)

Chinese in the Post-Civil War South
(Cohen)

Chinese Massacre (1871)

Chinese Playground
(Lee)

Chinese Student Protection Act (1992)

Chinese War Relief Association

Chinese Young People’s Summer Conference (1949)

Chinese Youth (Wah Ching)

Chin Gan

Chin Lung

Cho Li Muwang

Chongqing

Chow, Paul

Chow, Rodney

Chu, David

Chu, J. Chuan

Chuck, Frank

Chuck, John

Chun Afong

“Chun Ah Chun” (London)

Chung, Connie

Chung-Hoon, Gordon P.

Chung Mun-yew

Church Federation

Cio. D.

Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion

citizenship, right of; for foreign-born children; for immigrants; marriage and ; military service and civil war, Chinese

Civil War, U.S.

Cixi, Empress Dowager clans

Cleveland, Grover

Cleveland (Ohio)

clothing

Cohen, Lucy cold war

Cole, Cornelius

colleges.
See
universities and colleges, U.S.

Columbus, Christopher

Committee of One Hundred

Committee of Vigilance

communism

Communist China.
See
People’s Republic of China (PRC)

Communist Party, Chinese

Communist Party, U.S.

Communist revolution (1949)

Comstock Lode

Confucianism coolies (
k’u-li
)

Cooper, Chris

Cooper, Grant B.

Cox, Christopher

Crocker, Charles

Crocker, E. B.

Cuban

Cubic Air law (1870)

Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

Dana, Richard Henry

Deng Jiaxian

Deng-Reagan pact

Deng Xiaoping

Densmore, John deportation

Der, Henry

Dershowitz, Alan

Deutch, John

Donaldina Cameron House Dong Zem

Dorney P S. dotcoms

Drumwright, Everett F. due process, right of

Dunn, Robert

Durant, Thomas

East Coast.
See also specific cities

East Coast Asian Student Union

Eaton, Edith Maud

Ebens, Ronald

economic crises, Chinese

economic crises, U.S..
See also specific crises

education.
See also
universities and colleges, U.S.: of American-born Chinese; bilingual; in California; in China; of Chinese in United States ; integration of ; in Mississippi; Qing dynasty exchange program; racial quotas in; racism in ; in San Francisco; segregation of; in Taiwan ; of women

80/20

El Dorado County

employment.
See also specific occupations:
in California; in China; of Chinese Americans ; racism in ; during World War II

Eng, Andy

Eng, Phoebe

equal protection, right of

Eu, March Fong

European immigrants

exclusion laws: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). See Chinese Exclusion Act (1882); Geary Act (1892); repeal of; Scott Act (1888)

Expatriation Act of 1907

factories and factory workers .
See also
garment industry

Fair Employment Practice Commission, California State

Families with Children from China

family and family life .
See also
children; Gold Mountain families

Fang Lizhi

Far, Sui Sin. See Eaton, Edith Maud farming and farm workers

Father and Glorious Descendant
(Lowe)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Federal Emergency Relief Act

Fifteenth Amendment

Fifth Academy of National Defense

Fifth Chinese Daughter
(Wong)

film and film industry First Sino-Japanese War

First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
(Fong)

fishermen

Flower Drum Song, The
(Lee)

Fong, Harold

Fong, Hiram Leong

Fong, Marian

Fong, Martha

Fong, Matt

Fong, Mickey

Fong, Timothy

Fong-Torres, Barry

Fong-Torres, Ben

food and food customs

Fook Soo

foot-binding

Forbidden City nightclub

Foreign Assets Control Regulation (1917)

foreign-born Chinese. See immigrants, Chinese

forty-niners.
See
gold rush and gold rushers 4-A (Asian Americans for Affirmative Action)

Fourteenth Amendment

Fox News

France

fraternities

Fuchs, Klaus

Fujian province

Fuller, Melville

Fu Manchu

Fuzhou

Gai, Feng

gambling

Gan, David

Gao Liqin garment industry

Gates, Bill

Geary, John

Geary Act (1892)

GI Bill

Gibson, Otis

Ging Hawk Club

Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia