Chinese American
A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and are also one group of Asian Americans. Numbering 2.3 million in 2000, Chinese Americans make up 22.4% of Asian Americans (larger than any other Asian American subgroup), and constitute just over 1% of the United States as a whole.
External links
- Organization of Chinese Americans
- Chinese Historical Society of America
- The Asians in America Project - Chinese American Organizations Directory
- "Paper Son" - one Chinese American's story of coming to America under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
- Becoming American: The Chinese Experience a PBS Bill Moyers special
- Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Railroad - Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
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