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Chinese Immigration

the second half of the 19th c.

-    the Gold Rush (John Sutter's sawmill, Jan 24, 1848)

-    Feb 2, 1848 - three Chinese - two men and a woman

-    arrives at San Francisco on the American brig Eagle, discovered a piece of gold ore of some 240 ponds near the Moore's Fiat

-    San Francisco - the main port of entry; by Chinese immigrants called Jinshan, or in Canonese, Gam Saan

-    the Gold Mountain

-    1849 - 325 Chinese embarked on a journey to the US; 1850 - 789; 1851 - 2,716.

-    between 1850 and 1882 - morę than 322,000 Chinese, including reentrants, entered the US; mostly peasants, unskilled laborers but also merchants and craftsmen,

The situation in China

-    social and economic situation

-    the Opium War (1839-1842), the end of the