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Chinese American History Resources Foundations Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Historical Societies Chicago Chinese American Historical Society - Chicago, Illinois Chinese Historical Society of America - San Francisco, California Chinese Historical Society of New England - Boston, Massachusetts Chinese Historical Society of Southern California - Los Angeles, California Fiddletown Preservation Society- Fiddletown, California Mai Wah Society - Butte, Montana Museums Bahay Tsinoys - Manila, Philippines Chinese American Museum - Los Angeles, California Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois Dai Loy Museum - Locke, California Mai Wah Museum - Butte, Montana Museum of Chinese in the Americas - New York, New York San Diego Chinese Historical Museum - San Diego, California Wing Luke Museum - Seattle, Washington Print Publications Abraham, Terry, ed., Chinese Servants in the West: Florence Baillie-Grohman's "The Yellow and White Agony," Asian American Comparatve Collection Research Report, No, 2, Asian American Comparative Collection, Laboratory of Anthoropology, University of Idaho. Anderson, Kay J. "The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77 (1987): 580-598. Arreola, D. "The Chinese Role in Creating the Early Cultural Landscape of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta." California Geographer 15 (1975): 1-15. Barth, Gunther, "Bitter Strength: A History of the Chinese in the United States, 1850-1870" (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964) Brown, Catherine L. and Clifton, W. Pannell. "The Chinese in America." In Ethnicity in Contemporary America: A Geographical Appraisal, ed. Jesse O. McKee, 195-216. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1985. Chang, Iris, The Chinese in America : A Narrative History, Viking Press, 2003 Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Publications Chu, Daniel and Chu, Samuel. Passage to the Golden Gate: A History of the Chinese in America until 1910. New York: Doubleday, 1967. Fellows, Donald K. "Chinese." In A Mosaic of America's Ethnic Minorities, 99-120. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1972. Gardner, A. Dudley, "The Chinese in Wyoming: Life in the Core and Peripheral Communities," South Dakota History, 33 (Winter 2003), 380?90. Hart, Jerome A., In Our Second Century. The Pioneer Press (1931) Hardesty, Donald L., "Archaeology and the Chinese Experience in Nevada," South Dakota History, 33 (Winter 2003), 363?79. Kim, Hyung-Chan, ed., Dictionary of Asian American History, (New York: Greenwood Press, 1986) King, Haitung and Locke, Frances. "The Chinese in the United States: A Century of Occupational Transistion." International Migration Review 14 (Spring, 1980): 15-42. Lee, Calvin., Chinatown, U.S.A. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. Lee, Rose H., The Chinese in the United States. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1960. Locklear, William R., The Celestials and the Angels: A Study of the Anti-Chinese Movement in Los Angeles to 1882." The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, September, 1960, Vol. XLII-No. 3, pp 239-256. McClain, Charles J., In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) Murphey, Rhoads, "Boston's Chinatown." Economic Geography 28 (1952): 244-255. Pfaelzer, Jean, "Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans." (Random House, New York, 2007) Renner, George T. "Chinese Influence in the Development of the Western United States." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 152 (1930): 356-369. Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry, The Chinese Experience in America. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986) Sandmeyer, Elmer Clarence, The Anti-Chinese Movement in California (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991). Yung, Judy; Chang, Gordon H.; Lai, Mark, eds. Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006). Zhu, Liping, "A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier," University of Colorado Press, 1997 Zhu, Liping, "Ethnic Oasis: Chinese Immigrants in the Frontier Black Hills." To purchase, contact sdshspress@state.sd.us. ________. "Cityscape of Old Chinatowns in North America." In Vision, Culture, and Landscape: Working Papers from the Berkeley Symposium on Cultural Landscape Interpretation, ed. Paul Groth, 77-97. Berkeley: Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California-Berkeley, 1990. ________. "The Decline of Chinatowns in the United States." American Journal of Sociology 54 (March 1949): 422-432. Special Projects By Light of Lanterns: An Untold History of Monterey Chinese Fishermen Chinese Canadian Historical Photo Exhibit - Toronto, Canada Chinese Historical and Cultural Project - San Jose, California Chinese Reconciliation Project,Tacoma, Washington. Go to this URL San Luis Obispo Chinatown Project , select Special Projects, San Luis Obispo Chinatown Study Chinese Restaurants, a series of videos on Chinese restaurants around the world. There are 2 versions, Home Video Edition and Educational Edition. For more information go to Chinese Restaurants. < b>Other Resources Bok Kai Temple - Marysville, California Chinatownology The Chinese American Experience 1857-1892 Chinese in/from Latin America by UCLA faculty Dr. Clara Chu Chinese Immigrants in Wyoming Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Rail Road The Pioneer Chinese of Utah On Gold Mountain Smithsonian Web Page Legislations Foreign Miners Tax, 1852 California Police Tax, 1862 Burlingame Treaty, 1868, revised 1880 Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882, amended 1884 Scott Act, 1888 Geary Act, 1892, 1902, 1904 Alien Land Law, 1913 Oriental Exclusion Act, 1924 Chinese Exclusion repeal Act, 1943 War Bride Act, 1945 Displaced Person Act, 1948 California Law banning interracial marriage repealed, 1948 Refugee Acts, 1948 Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Cellar Reform Act)