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A street in Honolulu's Chinatown, Hawaii, with shops and signs under tropical sun.
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Chinese in Hawaii: The Sugar Plantations That Built the Pacific’s First Chinatown

Chinese in Hawaii: The Sugar Plantations That Built One of America's Oldest Chinatowns Before the gold rushes, before the transcontinental railroads, before the coolie ships that carried laborers to Cuba and Peru, one of the oldest Chinese communities in the United States was forming on a chain of volcanic islands in the middle of the…
September 6, 20260Comments

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Crowds and red paper lanterns fill a street during a lunar new year celebration in Lima's Barrio Chino
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Peruvian Chinese: The Coolie Ships, Chifa, and Latin America’s Largest Chinese Community

Peruvian Chinese: The Coolie Ships, Chifa, and Latin America's Largest Chinese Community Between 1849 and 1874, somewhere between ninety thousand and one hundred and twenty thousand Chinese laborers — nearly all of them young men — were carried across the Pacific to Peru under eight-year contracts they signed in a language they could not read.…
September 1, 20260Comments

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Cantonese miners panning for gold during the Australian gold rush, a group of Chinese men working a creek bed with mining tools
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Chinese Immigration Records in Australia: How to Find Your Wuyi Ancestor

Between 1851 and the early twentieth century, the Wuyi (五邑, Wǔyì, the "five counties") region of Guangdong — Taishan (台山, Táishān), Kaiping (开平, Kāipíng), Enping (恩平, Ēnpíng), Xinhui (新会, Xīnhuì), and Heshan (鹤山, Hèshān) — sent an outsized share of the Chinese who crossed the ocean to Australia. They came first for gold, following the…
August 31, 20260Comments

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