CHINESE AMERICAN
- Imperialism: Great Britain took Hong Kong from China after winning the First Opium War (1839-42) and took southern Kowloon after winning the Second Opium War (1856-60)
+ Opened up 5 ports of Chinese-Western Trade
- Push factors: crime, rebellion, flooding, taxation
- Pull factors: U.S. nation building and consequent need for labor
- Immigrant demographic: Southern Chinese farmers: male, poor, uneducated
- Mass Immigration: 1840s
"To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institution. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/transform the world, they must change/transform themselves."
- Grace Lee Boggs, Chinese American author, social activist, philosopher and feminist