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The history of the Chinese in the United States of America largely began in the early 19th century with the advent of the Sino-U.S. maritime trade.

At first only a handful of Chinese came, mainly as merchants, students, former sailors, to America. This was much later followed by thousands - mostly from Guangdong province - who wanted to make their fortune in the 1949-era California gold rush.

Chinese did not however only come as Goldsucher to California, but made contributions also for the building of the first transkontinentalen railway and for the setting up of the California agriculture and fishery. From the outset they were exposed to the racingism of the europaeischstaemmigen population, to who into the 1870er in massacres and the obligation settlement of the Chinese Migranten in Chinatowns culminated thereby to years. Also in legal regard Chinese were by far more badly posed in the USA than most other ethnical minorities. They had the American nationality special taxes to pay, were allowed no europaeischstaemmigen partners to marry and could not not to acquire. Additional wrong brought 1882 the Chinese to Exclusion act, by which the American borders for Chinese immigrants closed for more than 60 years. With this law, which remained until 1943 in strength, a new immigration was not only prevented by Chinese, but also the family unification of the Chinese already living in the country blocks, who had usually entered without their wives and children.

Only for years the situation of the Chinese Americans improved the 1940er gradually. The naturalization was finally taken back possible, the mixed marriage prohibition fell and also the restrictions of entry. Today live in the USA more than 3.3 million Chinese, from whom the by far largest part belongs to the social central layer. The inflow stops, annually enters hundredthousands of humans from the People's Republic of China, in addition, from Taiwan into the USA. Überflügelt becomes the Chinese-American migration at present only by the immigration from Mexico.