Chinese in Minnesota
By: Sherri Gebert Fuller ; foreword by Bill Holm.
Series: The people of Minnesota
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: St. Paul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- Minnesota -- History.; Chinese Americans -- Minnesota -- Social conditions.; Minnesota -- History.; Minnesota -- Ethnic relations.
Description: Minnesota's first Chinese settlers, fleeing racial violence in California, established scores of businesses after they arrived in the late 1870s. Newspapers eagerly published reports of their activities, including New Year's festivities, marriages, and restaurant and laundry openings. Beginning in 1882 federal laws banning Chinese immigration and denying citizenship put particular pressure on the community. Sherri Gebert Fuller relates the story of the Chinese from these early days to the 1960s when a new wave of immigrants, including students, businessmen, and professionals from China and Taiwan, began to bring new energy and issues to the community and a flourishing of ties between Minnesota and China.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-95) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early immigration; title: Settlement in Minnesota; title: The pre-World War II community; title: World War II and the postwar era; title: The community at midcentury; title: Personal account : my father, Harry Chin / by Sheila Chin Morris.