There were 70 Japanese and 108 Chinese in American universities in 1880, compared with a dozen Japanese and just about… Read more 1880: Comparing Japanese and Chinese Students at U.S. Universities

The Lakeside Annual Directory for 1874-5 contains this advertisement: Chinaman’s Tea House.  Kwang Lee and Ah Hen Jackson, Proprietors.  Dealers… Read more 1874: The First Chinese-Owned Business in Chicago

Some books and articles suggest that the first Chinese to settle in Chicago were three brothers named Moy, said to… Read more 1869: The First Californian Chinese in Chicago

Civil War historian Gordon Kwock credits “Research work of Shaie Mei Deng Temple from New Orleans, Louisiana” for this wonderful… Read more 1863: The Second Chinese in Chicago: A Confederate POW