America's Lost Chinese
From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US this chance for cultural and economic enrichment—but America gave the Chinese new perspectives and connections. They developed a dream of their own.
As teenagers, Hugo Wong’s great-grandfathers fled poverty in China for California. A decade later, the...
From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US this chance for cultural and economic enrichment—but America gave the Chinese new perspectives and connections. They developed a dream of their own.
As teenagers, Hugo Wong’s great-grandfathers fled poverty in China for California. A decade later, the...
