Management hired 50 more Chinese workers. Yung Wing brings a group of Cantonese students to New England to study, the first of hundreds of students to come to the United States to study. However, increasing racial discrimination eventually leads to the discontinuation of the exchange in 1881. The Chinese community clusters in Chinatown as a way to preserve tradition and avoid rampant discrimination against them. The community is overwhelmingly uneducated males.
Most men consider their stay temporary.
Ko Kun-hua arrives in Cambridge to teach Mandarin Chinese at Harvard. This upper class, Confucian intellectual was the first Chinese faculty member at Harvard. Ting I-hsin becomes the first Chinese student admitted to Harvard. He had graduated 3rd in his class from Holyoke High School during the years of the Educational Mission sponsored by Yung Wing. Unfortunately, I-hsin was recalled to China in 1881 and did not receive a degree from Harvard.