Chinese Americans
Chinese American describes citizens of the United States who have come from China or whose family came from China. They are the largest group of Asian Americans. Famous Chinese Americans include Yo Yo Ma, Bruce Lee and George Li. As of 2010 there are nearly 4 million Chinese Americans, just over 1% of the total population of the U.S.
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| Total population | |
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| 4,888,040[1] 1.5% of the U.S. population (2016) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York City Area, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Northern New Jersey, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Area, San Diego, Sacramento, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Austin, Tampa, Orlando, Seattle, Atlanta, Metro Detroit, Honolulu, Portland, Oregon, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Columbus, Chicago, Phoenix | |
| Languages | |
| Predominantly English, varieties of Chinese: Mandarin Chinese (Standard Chinese), Yue Chinese (Cantonese, Taishanese), Min Chinese (Eastern,[2] Southern), Hakka, Wu Chinese[3] (Taihu Wu, Oujiang Wu) | |
| Religion | |
| Unaffiliated, Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism[4] and Taoism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Asian Americans, Hong Kong Americans, Overseas Chinese, Chinese Canadians, Taiwanese Americans |
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| Traditional Chinese | 華裔美國人 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 华裔美国人 | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 美國華人 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 美国华人 | ||||||||||||
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| This article contains Chinese text. Without the correct software, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters. |
Chinese Americans Media
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The Chinese American experience has been documented at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan's Chinatown since 1980.
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Chinese American miners in the Colorado School of Mines' Edgar Experimental Mine near Idaho Springs, Colorado, c. 1920
Chinese American Shell Peddlers (1918)
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Chinese American fisherman at Monterey, CA, circa 1875
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Percentage of Chinese population in the United States, 2000
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Judy Chu (Template:Uspolabbr), the first female Chinese American elected to Congress
17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were murdered during the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles.
- Thure de Thulstrup - The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs.jpg
An illustration of the Rock Springs massacre of 1885, in which at least 28 Chinese immigrants were killed
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Technology conglomerates such as eBay located within high-technology centers across the United States, including California's Silicon Valley, have become attractive destinations of employment for Chinese Americans with technical skill-sets and foreign-born Chinese technology entrepreneurs looking to start or expand their own high-technology companies.
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Chinese American psychiatric patient, 1915
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References
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Other websites
Media related to Chinese Americans at Wikimedia Commons
- Stanford page Archived 2013-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Factfinder Chinese Americans 2005 American Community Survey Archived 2020-02-12 at Archive.today
- The Rocky Road to Liberty: A Documented History of Chinese American Immigration and Exclusion Archived 2009-12-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Famous Chinese Americans Comprehensive list of famous Chinese Americans organized by professions. Includes short biographical notes and Chinese names.
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