by: andres del valle brian goncalves. lee chew 1903 auto biography independent magazine lee chew
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Immigration of a Chinaman
By: Andres Del Valle Brian Goncalves
“The Biography of a Chinaman”
• Lee Chew
• 1903
• Auto biography
• Independent magazine
• Lee Chew
“The Biography of a Chinaman”
• Chinese immigrant
• Born in a village in Canton, China
• Wanted to come to America
Canton,China
“The Biography of a Chinaman”
• His dad gave him $100
• Hong Kong with 5 other boys
• Got steerage passage on a steamer
• San Francisco
• Steamboat with Immigrants
“The Biography of a Chinaman”
• Didn’t know how to speak English
• Got a job as a house servant
• But didn’t know anything
• New York
• Chinese men learning English
“The Biography of a Chinaman”
• Opened his own laundry
• East to Chicago, Detroit, China
• America and went to Buffalo
• Tenement in Buffalo
Chinese Immigration• Between 1850 and 1882
• About 300,000
• Taiping Rebellion
• Transcontinental railroad
• 1882 Exclusion Act • Chinese coming to
America
Social Contacts • Other nationalities jealous
• Treatment in U.S is wrong and mean
• China is a peaceful nation Railroad workers
• Tough jobs
• Leave everything behind
• Laundromat workers
Cultural Context • San Francisco
• Half Starved
• Lonely Chinese being persecuted
• 1870’s
• Scared
• Boat carrying Immigrants
Work Cited• 1. Archuleta, Elizabeth. "Chinese." American History Through Literature 1870-
1920. Ed. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 225-230. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 Feb. 2014.
• 2.Chew, L. (n.d.). The Biography Of A Chinaman. The Independent, 63-77. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
• 3."Chinese Exclusion Act and First Immigration Law Passed, May, 1882-August, 1882." DISCovering U.S. History. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003.Discovering Collection. Gale. Newington School District. 26 Feb. 2014 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&source=gale&srcprod=DISC&userGroupName=s0940&prodId=DC&tabID=T001&docId=EJ2104241198&type=retrieve&contentSet=GSRC&version=1.0>.
• 4. Text 8 Reading, Topic: People, The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center. (2005, May). Text 8 Reading, Topic: People, The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center. Retrieved February 26, 2014, from http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text8/text8read.htm