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Gillespie. Within a matter of months of Seise's arrival to the West Coast, the rush for gold in California commenced which brought a flooding of prospective miners from around the globe. Among this group were Chinese, primarily from the Guangdong Province, most of whom were seafarers who had already established Western contacts. “Few women accompanied these early sojourners, many of whom expected to return from after they made their fortune.”
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geographical region deeded by the city government and private property owners which allowed Chinese people to inherit and inhabit dwellings. The majority of these Chinese shopkeepers, restaurant owners, and hired workers in San Francisco Chinatown were predominantly Hoisanese and male . Many Chinese found jobs working for large companies, most famously as part of the
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Therefore, they decided to expand the dispensary to a modern hospital. In order to build the modern hospital they needed to make $ 200,000, so they began to have Chinese pageants that helped to contribute the donations from the Chinese Americans and Americans. So, when they got they collected the $ 200,000, they finally got permission from the
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In 1906, due to the great earthquake in San Francisco, the Tung Wah Dispensary was destroyed but was rebuilt in Trenton Alley. However, with the many injuries due to the natural disaster, a lot more Chinese patients needed medical attention, and the dispensary was beginning to overflow with patients.
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Before the Chinese had any particular health care system for their community, all of them had to go through the following barriers: they had to walk a very long distance to receive any medical attention at a hospital, and they were denied coverage due to unaffordable rates of the services provided by
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immigration station in the San Francisco Bay. To be permitted entry to the United States, thousands of mostly Chinese immigrants crossing the Pacific to San Francisco had to enter through the gauntlet of Angel Island, and were detained for months in a purgatory of isolation. Some spent years on the
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in Hong Kong, and it housed 25 beds, provided both western and Chinese medicine, free or to low cost care to patients, and its staff was volunteers from the community and physicians from outside of the community. Of those physicians three were American physicians and the rest were Chinese American
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According to "Handbook of Asian American Health" by Grace J. Yoo, the late 19th century was a period of major epidemics in San Francisco, which included outbreaks such as the bubonic plague, smallpox, and cholera. These diseases were commonly found among the poor and working classes. At the time,
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the hospitals. Instead most Chinese relied on "folk healer" than on western medicine. The "Folk Healers" were those that provided Chinese traditional medicine to the Chinese community in San Francisco Chinatown. Therefore, many Chinese did not bother to go to the hospital unless it was a crisis.
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Although many of the earlier waves of Chinese immigration were predominantly men searching for jobs, Chinese women also began making the journey towards the United States. The first known Chinese woman to immigrate was Marie Seise who arrived in 1848 and worked in the household of Charles V.
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The Chinese arriving in San Francisco, primarily from the Taishan and Zhongshan regions as well as Guangdong province of mainland China, did so at the height of the California Gold Rush, and many worked in the mines scattered throughout the northern part of the state. Chinatown was the one
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Although the oceanic voyage to the United States offered new and exciting opportunities, dangers also loomed for women while traveling and many were discouraged from making the trip due to the harsh living conditions. Oceanic voyages with Chinese immigrants boarded the
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minority in the neighborhood. Informal Chinatowns have emerged on Irving Street between 19th Avenue and 26th Avenue as well as on the commercial sections of Taraval Street and Noriega Street west of 19th Avenue. About half of the Sunset District's residents are
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immigrants began arriving in Chinatown in large numbers in the 1960s, and despite their status and professions in Hong Kong, had to find low-paying employment in restaurants and garment factories in Chinatown because of limited English fluency. An increase in
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The Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco is held on every Chinese New Year's, and is celebrated in Chinatown. It is the largest Chinese New Year event in North America. The Taiwanese American Cultural Festival, started in 1993, is held in
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The first medical care place in San Francisco Chinatown was the Tung Wah Dispensary. It was provided by the Chinese Six Companies, and it was built in 1900 on 828 Sacramento Street. The dispensary was named after the
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subgroup in San Francisco. San Francisco has the highest percentage of residents of Chinese descent of any major U.S. city, and the second largest Chinese American population, after
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whose numerous letters appeared in the local press. By the early 1880s, the population had adopted the term Tong war to describe periods of violence in Chinatown, the
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of 1892 which blocked the reunion of immigrants in America with their families not with them. Many diseases found through these voyages were Hookworm
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of 1882 – the first immigration restriction law aimed at a single ethnic group. This law, along with other immigration restriction laws such as the
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Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920
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had established its so-called Chinatown Squad. The anti-immigrant sentiment became law as the United States Government passed the
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is located in Palo Alto, and has classes teaching both Mandarin and Cantonese. The Shoong Family Chinese Cultural Center in
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physicians who helped with the Chinese medicine and translating from Chinese to English for the American physicians.
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in western San Francisco, a demographic shift began in the late 1960s and accelerated from the 1980s as Asian
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to other neighborhoods and outlying suburban areas, although there is still a significant Irish American and
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newspaper, which had editorialized that the squad was an "affront to Americans of Chinese descent".
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EXCEPTIONAL VISIONS: CHINESENESS, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE ARCHITECTURES OF COMMUNITY IN SILICON VALLEY
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to build the Hospital, and in two years the construction was in underway. By April 18, 1925 the
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Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
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that leveled most of the city. One of the more successful sergeants of Chinatown Squad,
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Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth Century San Francisco
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The Chinese in San Francisco and the Mining Region of California, 1848–1858
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island waiting for entry to the U.S. The exclusion act was repealed during
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The Gateway Arch (Dragon Gate) on Grant Avenue at Bush Street in Chinatown.
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Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
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to San Francisco increased dramatically. Much of the original, largely
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Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown
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List of U.S. cities with significant Chinese-American populations
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and San Jose Chinese school both serve the greater San Jose area.
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U.S. immigration policy toward the People's Republic of China
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serves as a Chinese-language television broadcast station.
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and Guangdong has gradually led to the replacement of the
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