Chinese America: History and Perspectives articles from January 1 2005

Chinese America: History and Perspectives archives from January 1 2005

Introduction.
January 1, 2005... In this issue of History and Perspectives 2005, we continue to examine the Chinese-American migration experience with Erika Lee's essay on Chinese-American immigration during the Exclusion Era (1882-1943). Lee's study is based on historical...

Echoes of the Chinese Exclusion Era in post-9/11 America.
January 1, 2005... From 1910 to 1940 the immigration station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay served as the gateway and processing and detention center for an estimated 175,000 immigrants seeking to enter the United States. Most immigrants processed at...

A Wen family saga: from the United States to China.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... Editors' Note: Two essays of Wen Zhengde are published below with a related piece, the reminiscences of Wen Zhengde's older brother, Wen Xiongfei. The first essay by Wen Zhengde provides insights into the arrival of her father in California...

My great-aunt Wen Zhengde.
January 1, 2005... When I was growing up in the 1940s, my grandmother Won King Yoak told me that she, her five sisters, and two brothers were born in the United States. Two of her siblings, however, left for China. Her brother, Wen Xiongfei, (1) went to China to...

Breaking racial barriers: Wo Kee Company: a collaboration between a Chinese immigrant and white American in nineteenth-century America (1).(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... Editor's Note: This first manuscript pertains to my great-aunt's father (my great-grandfather) Wen He. (2) To me, his story is intriguing because despite the strong anti-Chinese prejudice and discrimination during the 1800s, he managed to forge...

A brief historical overview of Wen Xiongfei's times.(Biography)
January 1, 2005... Wen Xiongfei (Won Hung Fei) was of Xinning (now Taishan) ancestry but born in San Francisco's Chinatown. He was the eldest son of Wen He (Won Wo), owner of the Wo Kee lumberyard. Beginning at the age of eight, Wen Xiongfei acquired an excellent...

Founding of the Chinese Revolutionary League in America.(Chinese Revolutionary League )
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The Zhongguo Tongmenghui (Chinese Revolutionary League) (1) of San Francisco, California, was nominally founded in spring 1910. In reality this group had already been in existence since spring 1909, when it used the name...

A Chinese-American woman's plight during the Cultural Revolution (1).
January 1, 2005... A FEW PRELIMINARY WORDS BY LAURENE WU MCCLAIN In 1957 the Chinese Communist Party launched an "anti-rightist" movement against persons thought to be bourgeois and antirevolutionary. At that time, my great-aunt's son, Daniel, was condemned...

Chinese-American transnationalism aboard the Love Boat: the Overseas Chinese Youth Language Training and Study Tour to the Republic of China.
January 1, 2005... The Taiwanese government-sponsored Overseas Chinese Youth Language Training and Study Tour to the Republic of China is an annual summer camp for overseas Chinese youth that began in 1966. The Study Tour is part of a larger Taiwanese government...