The Chinese in America (73 page)

Gobi Desert

Golden Dreams and Waking Realities
(Shaw)

Gold Mountain families

gold rush and gold rushers; Chinese experience in; effect on San Francisco; foreign miner’s tax; lawlessness during ; miner’s daily life; prostitution during; wages; water wheel invented

Good Earth, The
(film)

Grant, Ulysses S.

Grass Valley Indians

Gray, Horace

Great Britain

Great Depression

Great Leap Forward (1958)

Great Wall of China grocery stores

Guangdong province; American money sent to; emigration from ; food supplies in; Gold Mountain families.
See
Gold Mountain families; merchant class in; mining in; opera troupes; rebellions against Qing dynasty; return to ; transcontinental railroad recruitment in; visits to

Guangxu

Gubbins, Tom

Hakkas

Hall, George W.

Han, Yu-shan Han people

Hapas

Harrigan, Edward

Hart-Celler Act Harte, Bret

Harvard University

Hawaii

“Heathen Chinee, The” (Harte)

Hell’s Canyon (Oregon) herbalists

Hervey, James B.

Him, Suey

Hip Sing tong

Ho, Chinn

Ho, David

Ho, Fred

Hoar, George Frisbie

Horn, Montgomery home ownership

Hl-B visa program

Hong, Kaye

Hong King

Hong Kong; “astronauts,” ; author’s family in; British control of; Chinese immigration to ; cold war and; immigration corruption in; immigration from; Japanese capture of; laundry shipped to

Hong Xiuquan

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hopkins, Mark hospitals, exclusion of Chinese from

Ho-tai

Houston & Texas Central Railroad

Howe, James Wong

Hsiao Teh Seng

Hsieh, Tony

Hsu, Carl

Hu, Chih-Ming

Huang Qiming

Huie Kin

Hundred Days’ Reform Movement (1898)

Hung Wai Ching

Huntington, Collis P.

Hurley, Patrick

Hu Yaobang

Hu Yunxiao

Hwang, David Henry

Hwang, Helena

illegal immigrants and immigration: confession program; during exclusion era; government complicity in; journey of; living conditions; naturalization of; during 1990s, ; paper sons; smuggling of.
See
smuggling

immigrants, Chinese.
See also
Chinese American(s)and American-born Chinese (ABCs); illegal immigrants and immigration; immigration, Chinese; Taiwanese Americans and immigrants: activism of; American-born Chinese to, ratio of; arrival in San Francisco of; assimilation of ; burial rites of; in canning industry; census listing of; Chinese Americans and ; clothing of; dangers faced in journey of; departure from United States of; deportation of; divided loyalties of; downward mobility of ; on East Coast; as employers ; exploitation of other Chinese immigrants by; extortion of ; as factory workers ; family life of. See family and family life; as farmers ; fate of; as fishermen; foreign-born children of; gambling and; garment industry. See garment industry; geographic dispersal of; as gold rushers; grocery stores of; as herbalists; illegal.
See
illegal immigrants and immigration; ineligibility for citizenship; intellectuals. See intellectuals; intermarriage of; inventions of. See inventions; Irish immigrants and ; journey to United States of ; as laundrymen. See laundrymen; legal action. See legal action, anti-Chinese; legal action by Chinese; living conditions of; male-to-female ratio; mixed-race descendants of; Native Americans and; non-quota ; numbers of ; occupations of .
See also specific occupations;
other minorities and ; paper sons of ; as plantation workers ; as political refugees ; poverty of; racism against. See racism, anti-Chinese; railroads and ; recruitment of; reentry, right of; reputation of ; as restaurant owners ; in retail trade; return to China by; rights denied to; Sacramento-San Joaquin delta reclamation by; as scribes; social life of; social welfare system and; socioeconomic status of ; solitude of; as strikebreakers; in suburbia; tax burden of; transcontinental railroad and; visits to China by; wages of. See wages and earnings; white responses to. See also racism, anti-Chinese; as witnesses in court ; working conditions

immigration, Chinese.
See also
immigrants, Chinese: banning of.
See
exclusion laws; brokers; to California; corruption alleged; earthquake of 1906’s effect on; to East Coast ; efforts to ban; from Hong Kong; illegal. See illegal immigrants and immigration; during 1950s and 1960s; during 1960s;

immigration, Chinese (
cont
.): during 1980s, ; during 1990s, x; during nineteenth century; as one-way trip; periods of; quota for ; reasons for ; regulation of. See immigration laws; from Taiwan. See Taiwanese Americans and immigrants; to Taiwan; two-tiered

immigration, Taiwanese. See Taiwanese Americans and immigrants

Immigration Act (1924)

Immigration Act (1990)

Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)

Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

Immigration Council of the Chinese Professionals and Entrepreneurs Association

immigration laws .
See also
exclusion laws;
specific laws

immigration officials intellectuals; Chinese civil war and; cold war and; immigration by ; life during 1960s; Nationalist spying on; numbers of ; permanent residence status for; San Francisco community of; spying allegations against; Taiwanese

Inter-Collegiate Chinese for Social Action

International Chinese Business Directory of the World
(1913) inventions

Irish immigrants

I Wor Ken

Jan, Flora Belle

Jann, Smiley

Japan: aggression toward China; automobile industry of; First Sino-Japanese War; “Gentleman’s Agreement,” 161
n
; Pearl Harbor attack by; Sino-Japanese War; Taiwan and ; U.S. trade deficit with

Japanese Americans and immigrants; Chinese American and; internment of; in military; Pearl Harbor and; racism against; stereotypes of

Jen, Gish

Jeong, Bessie

Jim Crow laws

Joe, Ray

Johnson, Lyndon

Joy Luck Club, The
(Tan)

Jung, David

Justice for Vincent Chin Committee

Kan, Andrew

Kang Youwei

Kaufman, Charles

Kearney, Denis

Kennedy, Edward

Kennedy, John F.

Kiangnan Machine Works

Kim, Elaine

Kim, Hong

Kim, Lillian Lee

Kim Il Sung

Kin, Huie

Kincaid, Cliff

King, Martin Luther, Jr. Kingston, Maxine Hong

Kong Chow Association

Koon, Chong D.

Koopmanschap, Cornelius

Korean War

Kukka, Christine

Kung, H. H.

Kuo, Chia-ling

Kwan, Michelle

Kwan, Nancy

Kwoh, Stewart

Kwong, Chong, Wing & Company

labor and labor issues: contracts; conventions; illegal aliens and ; Sino-Japanese War and; strikes ; unions; working conditions

Lai, Him Mark

Lai, Jimmy

Lam, David

land ownership

language, Chinese

Larson, Louise Leung

Lau, Stanley

laundrymen-139
n

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

lawyers

Lea, Homer

League of Nations

Leang, Amy

Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian
(Eaton)

Lee, Ang

Lee, Bill

Lee, Bruce

Lee, Chin Yang

Lee, Clarence

Lee, Dai-ming

Lee, David

Lee, Lancing F.

Lee, Richard

Lee, Rose Hum

Lee, Tsung-Dao

Lee, Wallace

Lee, Wen Ho

Lee, Yan Phou

Lee Chew

legal action by Chinese -139
n
.
See also
activism of Chinese Americans;
specific cases

legislation, anti-Chinese.
See also
immigration laws;
specific laws:
in California; China’s response to; Chinese responses to; lapsing of ; in New York City; in San Francisco-139
n

Lem Moon Sing v. United States
Leon, William

Leong, Charlie

Leong Bick Ha

Let Keung Mui

Leung, Alex

Leung, Bernice

Leung, Faith So

Leung, Hugh

Leung, Lillie

Leung, Louise

Leung, Tom

Leung, Tye

Li, Wei

Liang Qichao

Liang Tun-yen

Lieu, Ted

Lim, Harry

Lin, Chia-Chiao

Lin, Sam Chu

Lin, Tung-Yen

Ling, Dick

Ling Sing

LinkExchange

Lin, Maya

Lin Zexu

Liu, Henry

Liu Haiming

Liu Zongren

Locke, Gary

Loewen, James W.

London, Jack

Lone Mountain Cemetery

Long Island (New York)

Long March (1934)

Loo, Bessie

Loo, Jim

Look, J. S.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Survey of Race Relations (1924)

Louie, Clifford

Louie, Lillian

Low, Charlie

Low, James

Lowe, Pardee

Lowell High School

Luce, Henry

Lue Gim Gong

Luh, Raymond

Lum Gong Lum Yip Kee

Lung Chin

Ma, Theresa

MacArthur, Douglas

Macao

McCarran-Walter Act

McCarthyism

McConnell, Mitch

McCunn, Ruthanne Lum

McKeown, Adam

Madame Chiang Kai-shek Air WACs

Magnuson, Warren

Magnuson Act (1943)

Maidu Indians

Main Street
(Lewis)

Manchus/Manchuria .
See also
Qing dynasty

Manifest Destiny

Mao Zedong

Mar, M. Elaine

Marginal Man, The
(Tsung)

Mariposa County

marriage.
See also
family and family life; arranged; Chinese attitude toward; citizenship and; Confucian ideal of; to foreign-born women; interracial

Marshall, George C.

Marshall Plan

Mar Sui Haw

Massachusetts Institute of Technology May, Michael

May Fourth movement (1919)

Mee Yung

Mexico

military, U.S.: Chinese in ; Japanese in
;
racism in

Miller, John F.

Ming dynasty

mining: gold.
See
gold rush and gold rushers; in Guangdong province

missionaries

Mississippi

Mississippi Chinese, The
(Loewen)

Mississippi River

“model minority,” Chinese Americans as

Mona in the Promised Land
(Jen)

Mongols/Mongolia

Monson Academy

Monterey

Monterey Park (California)

Moore, Paul

Morrison Education Society School

Moy, Afong

Moy, Eugene

Murieta, Joaquin

Murray, Hugh

My Country Versus Me
(Lee)

Nanjing (Nanking)

National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)

National Archives, U.S.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Dollar Stores

National People’s Party (Kuomintang) ; Taiwan and ; Taiwanese immigrants and

National Taiwan University

nation-of-origin requirements

Native Americans.
See also specific tribes:
Chinese claimed to be; Chinese immigrants and; racism against

Naturalization Act (1790)

Nevada County

New Deal

New Orleans

newspapers and magazines, Chinese American.
See also specific titles

New York City

New York State, interracial marriage in

New York
Sun

Ng, Franklin

Nitz, Michael

Nixon, Richard

Nobel Prize

North, the, post-Civil War

North Adams (Massachusetts)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Northern Expedition (1926-28)

nuclear weapons

Oliphant, Patrick

On Gold Mountain
(See)

Onyett, Helen Pon

Oregon/Oregon Territory