Although most immigration from China to the United States occurred during the twentieth century, the earliest Chinese immigrants arrived in America in the 1780s. However, the discovery of gold in California in 1848 brought a large wave of Chinese. In the following three decades, about 300,000 Chinese entered the United States to work primarily as miners in gold mines, laundry, and grocery operators in urban communities, farm laborers in agricultural areas, or fishermen in fishing villages in... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.