P.114  - highest point- Mount Kunlun-in Sinkiang-tibet-ching-hai- 25,341 ft.
-two coastlines
-rivers - longest - Yangtze, 3,346mi.
-lakes - largest lake Kokonor in Chinghai Province, l,622 sq. mi.

P.115- 68 percent of China is mounains
-tempatrure varies b/c china is so big
-in Shanghai -oast, january 38 degres f - July - 80 degrees f
-in urumchi - interior - January - -3 degrees f - July74 degrees f
- not enough rain in interior of china
- area - 3,789,320 sq. mi. - including Dairen and Mukden

p. 113- offical mane Republic of china
- capital kanking
- offical language - mandarin Chinese - into three sections - indo-chinese,
austro-asiatic, altai
- republic government
- based on five-power system - made by dr, Sunyat-sen
-in 1949 - Ceneralissimo Chiang Kai- shek
- five types- executive, legislative, judicial, examintion, control
- president 6 years
 

Daley, william. the Chinese Americans. New York: Chelsea House Publishers,
1987.

p.7- immigrats stayed with tehir way of life

p.8- 12 million immigrats passed by Ellis Island
-Chinese exclusion Act - 1882- closed U.S. to China

p.9 - 17th century Manchus took over china
-manchus made chinese men wear their hair in braids -queue
 

Brownstone, Davidm. The chinese American Heritage. New York: Facts on File,
1988.

p. 35- if caught leaving- beheaded- Manchus
- in Gold rush days
- left from hong kong
- coolie trades- kidnappand make slaves- Macao

p. 36- Yung Wings story
   One of the first scense i had seen on my arrival in Macao in 1855 was a
  string of poor Chinese coolios tied to each other by their queues and
led into one of teh barracoons (poor hotels) like abject slaves. Once
while in Canton I succeeded in having two or three kidnappers     arrested
and had them put into wooden collars weighing forty     pounds, which the
culprits had to carry night and day for a cople of     months as a punishment
for the kidnapping.

p 37-usually $50 from Hong Kong to macao to San Francisco
- had to raise money

p. 39- jamed in to small spaces- many died

p. 40- Huie Kin - journal to America
- fresh water was scarce
when wind was strong go far/ visa versa

p. 44 -when arriving  Chinese thought - strange place
- Chinese had a very strong community
 

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

p. 18-
   Civil Wars, high taxas, natural disaters, and foriegh invasions all
afflicted china during the 19th century. The result was poverty,    famine,
and the sound of children weeping for food that their parents    could not
provide.

p. 23- 7000 mile journey