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This is a list of notable Chinese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants who have made exceptional contributions to various facets of American society.
Another major concern of European Americans in relation to Chinatowns was the smoking of opium, even though the practice of smoking opium in America long predated Chinese immigration to the United States. [119] Tariff acts of 1832 established opium regulation, and in 1842 opium was taxed at seventy-five cents per pound. [120]
Chinese immigration to America in the 19th century is commonly referred to as the first wave of Chinese Americans, and are mainly Cantonese and Taishanese speaking people. About half or more of the Chinese ethnic people in the United States in the 1980s had roots in Taishan, Guangdong, a city in southern China near the major city of Guangzhou ...
Chinese Americans have enjoyed a vast disproportion of entrepreneurial and investment success in various U.S.-based high-technology centers and sectors, as evidenced by the 2010 Goldsea 100 Compilation of America's Most Successful Asian Entrepreneurs. [117] Chinese Americans accounted for 4% of people listed in the 1998 Forbes Hi Tech 100 List ...
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States of Chinese ethnic or national origin or descent, whether partial or full. The main article for this category is Chinese Americans . See also: List of Chinese Americans
It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood. It would be another day without a job since he ...
The assumption that Chinese Americans were unique and different from other ethnic groups in the United States kept the “perpetual foreigner” syndrome alive, allowing many Americans to assume ...
The phrase Asian-American was coined by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee in 1968 during the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance, [1] [2] and started to be used by the U.S. census in 1980. [3] Firsts by Asian-Americans in various fields have