Distant Education College,Jilin University Background Knowledge In 1870s and 1880s,there came an Anti-Chinese Movement in California,because the Chinese worked hard and were willing to accept lower but reasonable wages.Resentment sometimes led to persecution and even massacres in some places.Laws were passed to exclude the Chinese.Later,many Chinese laborers fled California,the breeding-place for anti-Chinese agents,and settled in New York City and Hawaii.The earlier Chinese Americans chiefly lived in“Chinese Streets”,“Chinese Quarter"or Chinatown and formed an almost exclusive Chinese community.(Picture) More
Background Knowledge Distant Education College, Jilin University In 1870s and 1880s, there came an Anti-Chinese Movement in California, because the Chinese worked hard and were willing to accept lower but reasonable wages. Resentment sometimes led to persecution and even massacres in some places. Laws were passed to exclude the Chinese. Later, many Chinese laborers fled California, the breeding-place for anti-Chinese agents, and settled in New York City and Hawaii. The earlier Chinese Americans chiefly lived in “Chinese Streets”, “Chinese Quarter” or Chinatown and formed an almost exclusive Chinese community. (Picture) More
Distant Education College,Jilin University Background Knowledge 4.Melting Pot:a container in which metals can be melted. America is taken as a melting pot,because it is a country of immigrants.No one knows when this term was first applied to American society.The phrase is said to be derived from a play of that name by Israel Zangwill.The national decision to exclude the Chinese from the United States is an institutionalized departure from the melting pot concept. More
Background Knowledge Distant Education College, Jilin University 4. Melting Pot: a container in which metals can be melted. America is taken as a melting pot, because it is a country of immigrants. No one knows when this term was first applied to American society. The phrase is said to be derived from a play of that name by Israel Zangwill. The national decision to exclude the Chinese from the United States is an institutionalized departure from the melting pot concept. More
Distant Education College,Jilin University Background Knowledge 5.Sunday School:an institution for the moral and religious instruction of children and,sometimes,of adolescents and adults.The Sunday school usually meets in a church building on Sunday for an hour or so.It also serves the purpose of making friends and learning English. Return
Background Knowledge Distant Education College, Jilin University 5. Sunday School: an institution for the moral and religious instruction of children and, sometimes, of adolescents and adults. The Sunday school usually meets in a church building on Sunday for an hour or so. It also serves the purpose of making friends and learning English. Return
Distant Education College,Jilin University Questions for Discussion 1.Why did so many Chineseemigrate to the United States?What experiences were they likely to have? 2.Why were early Chinese immigrants treated unfairly? Return
Questions for Discussion Distant Education College, Jilin University 1. Why did so many Chinese emigrate to the United States? What experiences were they likely to have? 2.Why were early Chinese immigrants treated unfairly? Return
Distant Education College,Jilin University Exercises 1.True/False Questions 2.Multiple-choice Questions Return
Exercises Distant Education College, Jilin University 1. True/False Questions 2. Multiple-choice Questions Return