Hoobler, Thomas and Dorothy. The Chinese American Family Album. New York: Oxford University Press,
   1994.

   P.9

        Hui- Shen was the first visitor to the United States
        14 hundred years later immigrants from China came to flee famine
        The population in China was 150 million in 1700
        There were the landlords and those under them
        Majority of immigrants were from the Kwangtang Providence

   P.10

   Often drowned baby girls, it was hard to raise them

   Chinese way of life led by Confucius

   Tests by officers to obtain posts

   Chinese wanted to be buried in home town

   Family is very important

   Many generations of family live together in same house

   Children are taught to respect there parents

   Woman had to be nice to husband and in-laws

   Young women had no say in who they married

   Men could be married to two women

   Girls must wrap feet

   Small feet equal femininity

   Many religions in China

   California gold rush caused immigration

   P.11

   No geography was taught in school

   Tales were told that men got rich over night with gold

   Rumor of gold being found on ground

   P.12

        7,000 miles across pacific ocean Women are left behind in China

   P.23

   Folk song sung be Chinese women:

   Flowers shall be my headdress once again,

   For my dear husband will soon return from a distant shore.

   Ten long years did I wait

   Trying hard to remember his face

   As I toiled at my spinning wheel each lonely night. (Hoobler, 1994)

   Most men just brought the clothes on back with them

   More than 60,000 Chinese came from 1850 and 1860

              “Chinese American
   Literature”(on-line)http://labweb.soemadison.wisc.edu/cni514/fall97/sumera/china.html

        Mostly males left to the United States
        Limited resources in China
        Huge population in China
        War between Britain and China caused immigration too
        Gold in California

             Daley, William. The Chinese Americans. New York, Philadelphia: Chelea House Publishers, 1987.

   P.13

        The Chinese were unskilled workers
        Hair pulled tight back

             Hoff, Rhoda. China Adventures in Eyewitness History. New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1965.

   P.32

        Abundant produce, fruits, grains, gold, silver

   p.161

        Coolie- bitter strength
        People half naked
        Lots of smoking

             Smith, Dr. Whitney. Flags Through the Ages and Across the World. New York: McGraw Hill Book
   Company, 1975.

   P.111

        Red-communism
        Large star- leadership of communist party
        4 small stars- the communist party’s followers

          Willcox, Isobel. Acrobats and Ping-Pong. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1987.

   “China.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 1992 ed.

   P.474

        Agriculture- cabbages, corn, cotton, eggs, fruits, millet, peanuts, potatoes, rice

   P.480

        92% of the Chinese people are Han

   P. 481

        55 minority groups
        Minorities live in South China

   P. 482

        Father could legally kill kids if they disobeyed him

   P.486

        China had a good education
        Everyone should be able to read

            McLenighan, Valjean. Enchantment of the World China a history to 1949. Chicago: Children’s press,
   1983.

   The Trip Over

   Hoobler, Thomas and Dorothy. The Chinese American Family Album. New York: Oxford University Press,
   1994.

   P. 23

        60,000 Chinese came to America from 1950 and 1960
        Ticket from Hong Kong to San Francisco cost from $25 to $60
        Some sold property and livestock for money
        Charles Crocker head of the Central Pacific Railroad went to China to higher workers
        In exchange he gave house and the travel expenses

   P.24

        On the ship Chinese got seasick, poor food, crowded conditions, and loneliness
        Lots of people had doubts
        Some people tried to cross Pacific in small fishing boats
        Some snuck aboard ship so as to not pay expenses

   The New Country

   “Chinese American Literature”(on-line)http://labweb.soemadison.wisc.edu/cni514/fall97/sumera/china.html

        Intense racism
        Only dangerous jobs
        First period Chinese immigration came to end in 1882
        The Chinese Exclusion Act- banned Chinese immigration
        The law was active for 60 years
        In 1948 it was repealed