Chinese

=**The Chinese: A Perspective on American History**=

**by Mariell Mendoza and Teresa Cunan**


The Chinese are an East Asian group. In the east, along the shores of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea there are extensive and densely populated alluvial plains. China is near the countries of Mongolia, Nepal, Vietnam, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Korea. The mountains in the southwest part of China might have limited them to move to Nepal, India, and other countries in that direction. The Chinese people might have interacted with Koreans, Japanese, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Mongolians. They also might have traded goods with them. They might had to cross the Pacific Ocean or go the other way, which is crossing the Indian Ocean to South Atlantic Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean. They were a little near the "known world" because their continents were close to each other.
 * Introduction:**

In 1492, the Chinese practiced the religion of Tao, among other religions. Tao is associated with nature, due to a belief that nature demonstrates the Tao. One thing important to them is the flow of qi, as the essential energy of action and existence, is often compared to the universal order of Tao. Some deities are also simply exalted humans, such as Guan Yu, the god of honor and piety. Tao is rarely an object of worship, being treated more like the India concepts of atman and dharma. Reverence for ancestors spirits and immortals are also common in popular Taoism. "Tao" is usually translated as road, channel, path, way, doctrine, or line.
 * Religion (Worldview):**

Immigration from the mainland China became a largest fraction of ethnic China immigration in to United States. There were 25,000 immigrants in 1852; and 105,465 immigrants in 1880. Today, there are about 600,000 Chinese Americans in the United States.
 * Population in the United States:**


 * HISTORY:

1492: Columbus’ Arrival in the Americas** China's capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing during the early Ming Dynasty.


 * 1521: Cortes Encounters the Aztecs in Mexico

1607: English Colonists Arrive at Jamestown** An estimated 25 million died during the Manchu quest in China. The Ming fell to the Manchus in 1644.

The Ming fell to the Manchus in 1644, who then established the Qing Dynasty in China.
 * 1687: English Colonies Expand**

The recovery of the eighteenth century helped the Qing economy recover to levels the Ming had achieved in the sixteenth century; by 1750, the amount of registered land under cultivation equaled the level the Ming had reached in 1600 in China.
 * 1776-1787: American Revolution; U.S. Constitution**


 * 1802: Tlingit Battle the Russians at Sitka

1839: The Amistad; the Trail of Tears** 1,000 Chinese men are known to have arrived in the U.S. before the 1848 California Gold Rush. The first Chinese immigrants arrived in 1820.

The Taiping Civil War started in 1851 in China. The war cost at least twenty million lives with some estimates up to two hundred million.
 * 1850: Fugitive Slave Law Made**

Muslim Rebellion, which followed the Taiping Civil War, started in 1862 in China. The Chinese people were banned from emigrating to United States between 1885-1943. Immigration of Chinese was heavily restricted until 1965.
 * 1863: The U.S. Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation**

A reform plan for the empire to become a modern Meiji-style constitutional monarchy was drafted by Emperor Guangzu. Korea declared independence from Qing China's suzerainty in 1894 in China.
 * 1890: Westward Movement; Reform Movements**

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania are now home to the largest Chinese-American population. Chinese-Americans are voluntary minorities because they are people who are children of those who wanted to go to United States. Voluntary minorities are groups of immigrants who chose to come to the United States, and their descendants.
 * 2009: Today**

"China" and "Chinese American". Accessed in September 30, 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American
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