People from Taishan, Xinhui, Kaiping and Enping went to California for gold. They are all sitting outside.
In the unventilated cargo hold of China ship, we eat, drink, pull, disperse and sleep for dozens of days like pigs.
Shipped to the United States, to the river in the valley area of California, looking for gold with a sieve to make a living.
After California formally joined the United States, it began a series of anti-China labor movements in history. 1850 plus
The state passed the foreign miners' license law, and each person received a monthly license fee from 20 yuan, plus the exploitation of officials, and even
Fake receipts, and the pursuit of tax collectors, most Chinese workers fled to San Francisco from the canyon area, some desperate to return home, some unwilling to return home because they were ashamed to see their elders in Jiangdong, so they stayed in San Francisco and did all the menial work and coolies. The most common thing is washing clothes. Because laundry does not require capital, and because California is in a developing era, there are more men than women, so this industry is very necessary; At the same time, white people are unwilling to do such hard work.
In the case of opposing Chinese workers at that time, beating China people became a pastime for white people. Catch China in the street
Workers' braids knocking on their heads will surely arouse onlookers and cheers from passers-by, just like Hu playing Ah Q in Wei Zhuang. police
Not only do you not interfere with this unprovoked beating, but even when you see a nosebleed, you think that South China University of Technology had a fight with someone else and took him away.
Arrested.
From 1850 to 1860, China workers were killed at will, and many people died tragically in a foreign land. The Qing government at that time did not.
However, if overseas Chinese are not protected, they may be beheaded in accordance with the earliest Qing law when they return home.
1864, the United States built a transcontinental railway, which started from the east and west banks at the same time. White people want to take advantage.
Workers, thought of south China university of technology "can build the Great Wall of Wan Li". They began to recruit 10 thousand people in Guangdong in a planned way
Many Chinese workers are still transported to the United States by pigs. Build roads for them.
These China workers can eat anything and do anything. They camped at the construction site and cooked around the clock.
Work, and put forward to compete with Irish workers paving the road from east to west. The highest record of workers in China is 10.6 km per day, far exceeding that of Irish workers. However, when the grand opening ceremony was held on the east and west sides, the Chinese workers were driven far away and were not allowed to participate. At that time, workers in China were very angry, so they hid the last sleeper used for connection. When the tie-in ceremony was held and the sleepers could not be found, a China worker was seen coming out with the sleepers on his shoulders. The contribution of China workers has not been properly rewarded. It was not until more than a decade ago, on the centenary of the Pan-American Railway, that a sign was erected at the intersection to commend the contribution of Chinese workers.
After the completion of the Trans-Railway, the status of Chinese workers was slightly improved, but then a new anti-Chinese movement was triggered.
At that time, the total number of China workers studying in the United States was 63,000. After the completion of the Trans-Railway, not only were all unemployed, but they were also slaughtered and deported. This wave of Chinese exclusion also involves local economic contradictions. After the completion of the Trans-Railway, many enterprises in the west were controlled by the railway king who represented the eastern chaebol, and the local people were angry with the Chinese workers who built roads because of their dissatisfaction. Especially after the road repair work, the unemployed Chinese laborers wearing short-sleeved Tang suits and long braids, regardless of wages and hard work, made local workers jealous. They thought that Chinese workers had robbed them of their employment opportunities, so they flocked to the areas where Chinese workers gathered, killing Chinese workers and burning houses. 1886 Seattle, Washington even specifically legislated to force Chinese to leave the country within a time limit. Since then, in the western States of the United States, "exclusion from China" has become the slogan of democracy and * * * to win votes.
In this case, the surviving overseas Chinese are still alive. At that time, the law stipulated that China people could not be naturalized as American citizens and were not allowed to own real estate. Everyone paid a poll tax of 10 yuan, and the hair should not exceed 1 inch. The remains cannot leave this country. Dhobi ghat must have a carriage for receiving and transporting goods, and it is only allowed to drive in brick houses ... There are many laws to control China people.
1906 after the San Francisco fire, China people born in the United States were allowed to enjoy citizenship by law. this
Although this law looks democratic, it is actually a joke. Because Chinese workers in the United States are very girly, male Chinese workers are not qualified to get married at all, and they can't go back after leaving the United States. Some people worked hard to save some money, and then returned to Guangdong Siyi to get married and support the elderly. Some people were single all their lives and died in a foreign land.
Overseas Chinese who came to the United States as immediate family members also suffered painful humiliation. When they arrived in San Francisco, they were first detained on an island for investigation. This kind of investigation lasted for two weeks to six months, and was repeatedly questioned, punched and kicked. Everything you said is on record. Many people died of illness in the detention center, and many people committed suicide by forging a father-son relationship.
It was not until World War II that the status of overseas Chinese was gradually improved because China and the United States became allies and the United States cancelled some Chinese exclusion policies.