Chinese Culture In The 1800s

Immigration was a crucial aspect of the Gilded Age although it brought many issues to the USA. The large influx of Chinese brought out America’s racist views and caused the economy to be affected negatively. To begin with in the California gold rush, the large number of Chinese were blamed for taking all the gold and they were forcefully relocated to the city to work labor jobs. This large growth of laborers caused businesses to lower their average wages and non-immigrant Americans were unable to find jobs. Ones that did already have jobs were angered by the lower wages. Since the economy in the 1870s was in decline, Anti-Chinese groups, such as the Supreme Order of Caucasians, formed to protest against Chinese immigrants all across USA. Labor

In the early 1880’s immigrants started to come over to the United States. Immigrants came into the United States for job opportunities, and a better life for there families. Immigrants come from all over the world, such as chinese, Italian, and Russian immigrants. The experiences of Chinese immigrants differed from immigrants from Italy, and Russia. Their experiences differed, because of how they came over to America, where they lived, and jobs.

Around the mid 1800’s we started to see the movement of the Chinese immigrants in the pacific-coast of the united states, more specifically in California. They laid railroad tracks in the west coast and also serviced in mining during the California gold rush. You start to see the success of the Chinese immigrants which encouraged the poor Chinese to come to America. The Chinese started to spread and settle in Oregon as well as in Washington in the 1860’s providing labor for the state’s mines and salmon canneries and also setting up the Northern Pacific Railroad which connected Lake Superior to Tacoma, Washington and also helped build the Seattle to Newcastle railroad.(cite #2) These immigrants were very industrious, willing to work long hours

New agricultural techniques, porcelain, metallurgy, printing, and naval technology were few of the technological elements that reinforced the established features of social order. New agricultural techniques helped in the expand of their agricultural potential, the dynasties gained reputation from porcelain technology which moderately diffused to other societies producing porcelain in large quantities, metallurgical techniques as well diffused to lands beyond China, printing produced texts quickly and popular works appeared in huge quantities, and naval technology included of the magnetic compass which soon became common for mariners to use. Population growth, patriarchal social structures, and gunpowder were technological elements reinforcing established features of political order. Population growth reflected the capacity of economy and distribution of food, patriarchal social structures included of concern to preserve family fortunes and foot binding, and gunpowder was an element used for military effectiveness. These aspects provided a fundamental change in traditions because they changed their whole concepts of how to use goods as in previous Chinese eras.

The United States had a laissez-faire policy, that was enacted from 1780-1875, that allowed immigrants into the United States without restriction. Around this time, most colonists wanted more immigrants in the area so that they could help in developing North America. From shipping companies to churches, private employers, railroads, even federal governments to states, wanted immigrants in the United States. This was happening between the 1700’s and early 1800’s. For about fourty years, between 1783 and 1820, an estimated 250,000 immigrants came to America.

During the 1870’s to 1930’s, large numbers of Chinese immigrants came to the United States in search of a successful life for themselves and generations to come. Although some immigrants found it possible to Americanize, the extent to which the vast majority of Chinese immigrants in California preserved the cultural traditions of their homeland was much greater than that of assimilation. This outcome was due to the fact that they were logically more inclined to place themselves within ethnic enclaves after coming to a land of unfamiliarity, but they were also pressured and outcast as aliens under several legal acts and extremely discriminating prejudice from original Americans.

Imperialism is a important period for China because it protected natural resources, and gave the economy a boost it needed. The European countries were looking to exploit the vast natural resources China had and without a strong government and no political power they could have gotten walked all over. From there this boosted the economy to the point where they could produce materials the European countries were looking for. They also had the ability to sell the natural resources straight up which brought more money into the nation. With the boost in the economy education and culture were able to flourish throughout which led to a positive influence for the future. Imperialism created many great things in China and resulted in them flourishing into a powerhouse.

Language is the essence of any culture not only in Hawai‘i. When the overthrow happened the Native Hawaiians were stripped of their right to practice their culture and speak their native tongue, but that didn’t stop the newer generation of being curious. Another reason this video is relevant to our topic Ke Kumu Honua Mauli Ola, on the ground that people started to stand up for their rights. When they didn’t allow the children to speak hawaiian in school they took matters into their own hands. Many of the elders took the children whose parents boycotted the public schools, and taught them in the park. Also, in the mid 1800’s Hawaii had the highest literacy rate in the United States. Lastly, this video shows that we are educated and that all of the elders efforts that were talked on that lanai is being put into the community and raising good people. (‘Aha Punana Leo,

Speaking about Chinese women between the period of 1800 to 1942, family and sexuality of women were closely connected terminologies no matter before or after freeing women from households. However, compare to after, the moral punishment on women were much more strict and harsh if women violated rules on sexuality in before.

The Cultural Revolution was an event in China that made the children gain power over the adults and sometimes made the children go against their own parents. The idea of the Cultural Revolution was to remove old ideas and move on, creating a better future. The old ideas, old customs, old habits and old cultures were called the Four olds and they were banned. By placing those rules, that made the rich people the targets because anything foreign or valuable was considered the Four Olds. During that time period, families were torn apart and relationships were weakened.

In chapter 4, it talked about the struggle the Asian American went through deal with deculturalization, for example, work and school. The Chinese culture been around sent the tenth century. However, over 34 million Chinese people live in Southeast Asia. There are many type of ethnic group in the Asia culture that live in Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand (page 69). In the 19th century, many Chinese people move to American and Europe, they often can in large group, the saying china town reality from Singapore to Buenos Aires, Argentina (page 69). However, the Chinese people had move around the whole world, for example, from South America and the Caribbean (page 69). The large number of Japanese immigration came from South America. Many Chinese people had to move

Chinese culture is truly one of the great civilization our world has come across. It boasts a vast geographic expanse, over 4000 years of written history, as well as a rich and profound traditional society. Many aspects of Chinese civilization can be traced back many centuries. It is so diverse and unique, yet harmoniously blended, and presents itself a priceless benefit to the world.

Music has always been an important factor throughout my life, it helps me when I’m feeling down and gives me some type of relief. Because of this, it leaded me to take this course which ventured into different cultures and the music within them. I chose to go with the Brazilian and Chinese ensembles because they were the two cultures I was least familiar with. Growing up my family had friends who were born in brazil and would tell me stories of what it was like to live there, which has always had me interested in their culture. Also, while I was in high school I had a Chinese foreign exchange student live with me for an entire semester of school and she taught me things about her culture I would have never known if I hadn’t met her. Growing

There is an old saying in China: "two thousand years of history to see the city of xi 'an, one thousand years of history to see Beijing, one hundred years of history to see Shanghai."As the epitome of modern Chinese history, Shanghai has grown into a modern international metropolis.In the rapid economic development, Shanghai has not abandoned the traditional Chinese characteristics of the Shanghai culture, but instead has integrated the traditional folk customs and urban customs perfect.The bustling Shanghai is full of its unique cultural charm, and its internationalization, modernization, and time-style labels are also attracting more and more people.

From the historical aspect, the society of Hong Kong inherited characteristic from the British colonial era but still the influence of China is heavy. Hong Kong has a closely connection with mainland China due to geographical proximity and 95% Chinese immigrants with of its population help to maintain the identity among Chinese in Hong Kong, despite they tend to blend of both oriental and Western elements(Tsu, 2014).