As a new immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for less than ten years, I have a feeling of both familiarity and unfamiliarity with Chinatown. Many early Chinese immigrants live here, most of whom ...

Chinese immigrants made up just .02% of the United States population in 1882, he noted, yet that year Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, banning immigration from China for a decade.

By the 1840s, many Chinese immigrants had arrived in California as part of the state’s Gold Rush. In later decades, Chinese and Japanese immigrants largely lived on the West Coast, helping to build ...

By the 1920s, the disparagement of immigrants had expanded well beyond the Chinese to other Asians and to Eastern Europeans, who were deemed “inferior” and a threat to America’s “racial ...

The history of Chinese immigrants in America has always been about much more than one particular ethnic group. As Michael Luo’s “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging and the Epic Story ...

And as more coin-operated laundromats opened and people could afford to have washers and dryers in their homes, the business of Chinese laundries declined. But almost 140 years later, Chinese ...

Thursday, April 17, 2025 The Petaluma Historical Library & Museum invites the community to experience “Petaluma’s Chinatown Unearthed,” a powerful new ...