Joey Azar History 112C April 23,2001 "New York before Chinatown" Dr. Jack Tchen was the speaker for today's lecture. He is a historian, a cultural activist, and does studies of Asian humanities. Chinese people were shunned out of the Chinese settlements in 1882 the Chinese exclu...

It was a sense of belonging, of group pride, that drove me to the learning of Chinese history. Have you ever played those strategy games like "Romance of the 3 kingdoms" or similar ones? For me, it was that which aid in forming my Chinese identity. For when one reads history, or play ...

From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Qing prosperity steadily dropped. China had a population explosion that stretched government resources and capabilities to the limit. The actions and dealings of foreign powers, who took advantage of the weak Qing government to gain Ch...