p.111   -famine in Northern China (1877-1878) caused poor to leave while they
could
         -poor->forced to sell houses and land

p.112  -suicide was common
         -wolves and dogs ate the dead bodies of the starved people

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Brownstone, David.  The Chinese- American Heritage.  New York: Facts on File,
      1988.

p.2   -immigration happened in groups->started with the CA Gold Rush(1849)
      -racism led to Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
      -followed by other anti-Chinese acts and laws
      -before birth of Christ-> believed themselves to be at the very center
of the Earth
      -built lives families and carrers in US
      -brought hope, ability to work hard, courage, and pride to America

p.4   -major jobs in China-> farming, skilled craftspeople, and a few
merchants
      -American jobs-> miners, builders, scientists-> widespread variety

p.33 -1882-> Chinese Exclusion Act-> disallowed laborors from entering US for
10 yrs.

p.37 -during Gold Rush-> journey cost up to $200
      -low of $50 for ticket
      -poor-> salary of $1 to $2 per weeks salary... took a while to save
money for tickets to America

p.39 -diseases were spread onboard
      -two months or longer for a journey
      -some ships passed through unharmed

p.44 -new customs, buildings, food, ways of dressing, language
 
p.48 -some immigrants were held for 2 yrs. at Angel Island
      -goal at Angel Island->keep Chinese from entering

p.62 - "...turned out the be a land full of bigotry and discrimination."
      -treated the same as the Native Americans and Blacks

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The Journey to America [on-line],
      http://library.thinkquest.org/ 20619/Chinese.html, October 30, 2000

-Chinese-> 1st Asian immigrants to enter US
-1st Chinese immigrants-> wealthy, merchants, skilled artisans, fisherman,
hotel or restaurant owners
-respected for hard work for 1st few years
-over 1000 had bones shipped 2 China for burial if in the railroad business
-unbalanced amount of men:women-> 19:1 increased to 27:1 in 1890

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Chinese American Literature.  [on-line]
http://labweb.soemadison.wisc.edu/cni51
      4/fall97/sumera/china.html, October 30, 2000

-limited resources, growing pop.-> forced Chinese to leave China
-gold discovery in CA brough many Chinese to the US (1848-1853)
-beaten, murdered, robbed by Caucasion miners in the US
-werent allowed to testify in court-> no way of being protected from abuse

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"China." The World Book Encyclopedia.  1999ed

p.485    -most people make clothes
            -dress in comfort not style
            -adults-> dark or pastel colors
            -children-> bright colors and patterns
            -in earlier days, clothes identified their place in  Chinese
society

p.486    -believed the function of all study was to build character
 
p.487    -originally didnt force kids to go to school
            -1986-> required kids to attend school
            -Elementary School->6 or 7 yrs. old is when entered and attend
for 5 or 6 yrs.
            -Middle School-> 3 yrs.
            -Junior Middle Schools-> 2 or 3 yrs.

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Lord, Bette Bao.  The Chinese American Family Album.  New York: Oxford, 1994.

p.19   -civil wars, high taxes, natural disasters, foreign invasions->
poverty and famine in China
 
p.23   -traveled in rafts down Pearl River to Hong Kong
        - where some 1st saw white people
        -borrowed money from family in some cases for tickets

p.30   -wind strong-> good sailing day
        -bad winds-> drifts slowly through sea (longer journey)
        -strong winds from front pushed ships backwards

p.31   -little amount of fresh water
        -hoped for rain to wash themselves

p.37   -Angel Island-> Asians only
        -some held for weeks... up to 2 or 3 yrs.
        -asked many questions to try and stump them so they can be denied
access into America
 
p.39   -white boys threw rocks at Chinese entered Chinatown

p.62   -people wrapped rocks in snowballs and threw them at the Chinese
        -washing machine commercials... advertise chinese laundrey workers
being forced to go back to China jobless
 
p.89   -seperate house rooms for gods and goddesses
        -head of house burned incents in front of the shrines
        -goddess of mercy-> Kwan Yin

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Daley, William.  The Chinese Americans.  New York: Chelsea House Publishers,
      Inc., 1987.

p.7  -never abandoned their beliefs once they entered America

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McLenighan, Valjean.  Enchantment of the World China.  Chicago: Childrens
      Press, 1949.

p. 113   -Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Lamaism, Mohammedanism, Catholicism
-> religions

p.117   -Chinese are opera lovers

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