China 's Influence On The United States

The reasons for Chinese women to immigrate to America included natural disaster and internal problems in China in the 1840’s and 1850’s, the desire for family reunion, economic pursuit, and personal fulfillment. Problems that China faced involved a severe drought, the flooding of the Yangtze River, floods, and famine. This all amounted to ruined land, a rebellious peasantry, and a failing economy. Another problem China

America wanted to do business with China because they wanted to take part in Lucrative trade, because of the missionaries wanted to convert the Chinese to Christianity. Russia, Japan, Great Britain, France and Germany took control of a specific region of China during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Also, exporters feared that Chinese markets would be monopolized by Europeans.

One of the big reasons that sent many Chinese men fleeing to America and other countries, was the decline in Chinese economy after the Opium War in 1842. After their crushing defeat in this war, more and more Chinese immigrants came to America on a long term scale. They found work as agricultural laborers, on railroad construction crews throughout the West, and in low-paying industrial jobs. Despite their reasoning to come here, each Chinese immigrant had one thing in common. They each brought their language, culture, customs, and beliefs to the country.

Throughout American history, the Chinese were never talked about in great detail despite their impact. The first generation of Chinese that came to the U.S after the California Gold faced finding their identity in a new country. They defined themselves in american culture with the establishment of Chinatown and the construction of the continental railroad, but they also faced hardships of discrimination leading to the Chinese exclusion act. America talks about the blacks, the latinos, the Irish being discriminated but hardly ever about the Chinese. Since the moment they arrived, the Chinese adapted to the new land around them and strived to make America their new home despite constant setbacks employed by the United States government.

Before they largely started to relocate to California in 1849 during the Gold Rush. The goals of most men was to work hard, make money and return to their homeland as wealthy men, but that wasn’t the case for most of them. When they came, they were unwelcome in their new home of opportunities. In an article from Teachingresources.com it states “ The Chinese were criticized for following a different religion, using opium, playing different gambling games (fan tan), speaking a different language, wearing different clothes and styles, eating different foods, celebrating different holidays, and for living in a bachelor society rather than as family men with wives and children”. Proving the large amount of ignorance in society existing when talking about other minorities and cultures. The U.S also went to the extents to put restrictions on immigrants coming to the U.S intended to limit their growth in the country. “ During the 1920s, Asian American suffered from the prejudices of European Americans. Anti-Asian sentiments were expressed through a series of immigration laws and other regulations intended to limit the growth of the Asian American community as well as it’s civil and property rights”(Pg.24). The U.S installed these laws to prevent minorities such as the Asian Americans from gaining power in

Chinese women had the most difficulty going through customs. According to the article “Housewives, Men’s Villages, Sexual Respectability”, Jennifer Gee explains that even though the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 did not specify the women’s eligibility for entry, the Federal Courts ruled that their immigration status was derived of their husband’s. So if you were the wife of a laborer, you would not be eligible to enter the United States because of the exclusion act. The immigration officials were also more concerned with verifying their identity. “ The focus of Chinese immigrants’ identity in Angel Island interrogations stemmed largely from the terms of the Chinese Exclusion Act and its interpretation by the courts.” (Gee, 2003) The immigration officials had to determine if the women entering were telling the truth. The process for Chinese women intensified with passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, which prevented people who were not eligible to become citizens from entering, making it more difficult for Asians to gain access into the United

Many immigrants such as Chinese, Japanese, Europeans began to immigrate to the United States in hope to achieve the American Dream where they become rich and wealthy during America’s gold discovery. The Chinese began immigrating to United States between 1840-1890s due to the political and social instability of China (pg.6). According to Mann, Numrich, and Williams in their article: “Buddhist, Hindus, and

China is one of the oldest countries in the world. Most of the Chinese immigrants were motivated to come to America due to the California gold rush .They sold many of items in order to afford a ticket to the New World, this included livestock, and property. The immigrants started arriving around 1850. Many of the Chinese did not have intentions of staying in America, those people were called sojourners (Huot 221). The Chinese were not accepted throughout the nation. One of the most popular reasons for rejection was because

The Chinese had a different culture and by trickling into the American population, they were creating ripples American culture. They “followed a different religion, used opium, played different gambling games (fan tan), spoke a different language, wore different clothes and styles, ate different foods, celebrated different holidays, and for lived in a bachelor society rather than as family men with wives and children” (“The Chinese Experience in America”) and people were being exposed to these aspects of their culture. The exposure elicited reactions from white Americans, especially negative ones. The Americans of European backgrounds “could not understand how the Chinese could live in such crowded, poor conditions and work so hard for such low wages” and they couldn’t understand why they were so different. So they resorted to reasoning Chinese immigrants were simply inferior and that the only explanation for the Chinese people's’ differences was that they harbored some superhuman abilities. Novelists during this time took these ideas and wrote stories of Chinese characters. This served as a form of propaganda that only spread these ideas of the Chinese being “superhumans”. A part of the propaganda was spreading that Chinese immigrants were part of a secret plan to invade and take over the government of the United States replacing

In the story Jin wang struggled with the effects of internalized racism. Jin was surrounded by people who had negative stereotypes about Chinese. Stereotypes, such as, all Chinese people eat dogs and are geeks. These things made Jin start to changed his

The Chinese Six Companies were six companies across the United States which played a major role in the Chinese prostitution and was a key organization for Chinese Americans in 1800s. They original main goal was to help the Chinese come from and return to China, help many corpses shipped them to China for burial and take care of the starving and elder. The Chinese Six Companies also attempted to discourage prostitution in the Chinese community and attempted to limit prostitution in America. Even though their main goal was to help out the Chinese, during the 1880s their outlook complete changed. These Chinese Six Companies saw the benefits of prostitution which they force encouraging and overseeing all the vices associated with the Chinese-American

The Chinese community is one of the fastest growing communities in the United States. The Chinese first came to the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The reason why they left their home country was

From what I learned, goods importing really changed Chinese history. People refer the “Columbian Exchange” as the global flow of human, plants, animals and microorganisms. This exchange also has huge impact for China, when Europeans landed in the Philippines in 1570s, they brought silver from Africa and eventually silver become the important currency in Ming Dynasty in China. After that, more and more silver flow into China and in return silk, china and other commodities transported to Mexico. Except silver, there are three crops imported from America played a key role in the history of China, which are potatoes, sweet potatoes and corns. These crops don't rely on rich soils, due to this advantage; millions of Chinese start to grow them. On the other hands, these goods also responsible for some negative consequences. Ming Dynasty declined and fall due to the over-rely on silver and later on Qing Dynasty feed large population of people credit to corn and potatoes, but decline also because of the huge population and water and soil

One way China influenced the world was through its products that were traded and spread across Europe. A product that was highly sought after and uniquely crafted in China was silk. Silk is an expensive fabric that the nobles and the rich would pay large sums of money to obtain. It was used in some cases as a way to distinguish yourself among others. It also served as a gift, tribute, or peace offering from one family to another.

The Chinese men became an important role of the work force which laid the economic foundation of the American West. They were working in agriculture, mining, industry, and wherever work was available. However, the Anglo workers saw them as an economic competitor and racial inferior. The Chinese were faced with prejudice and discrimination that were manifested in violence.