Han Huntington Library American San Marino upcoming October debut Chinese immigrant history collection. Some of the original documents show that the Chinese in the United States Chinese Exclusion period in order to immigrate to the U.S., just recognize the Chinese father has U.S. citizenship, so the same man may have a dozen kids, these kids are U.S. official called "paper sons."

Han Yang Liwei Huntington Library file manager pointed out that when Chinese immigrants difficulties, many people spend money to "buy" his father, which is paid to the Chinese as a U.S. citizen father, by his father reported to the immigration status. However, USCIS has cracked the road, similar to today's method of checking fake marriage, they order "paper son" specially a guide, the immigration officer will use the handbook tricky questions were asked the father and son, to verify the truth.

From the "Paper Son" when Chinese immigrants saw the template file you can see the father of several children are the same person. Every time a trip to China these fathers may, just like when you re-enter the U.S. immigration authorities that he gave birth to a child in China. Yang Liwei said, because then there are indeed many Chinese men in the United States can not find the partner, must go back to China very often, so USCIS can not judge true and false.

On the other hand, because the Chinese are not fluent in English, fearing Wrong answer, so interrogation process accompanying translators play a very important role, there are a lot of people will plug the money to the translator, ask them "good word" few.

Han Huntington Library in antique "Fame Park" is known, but in fact the museum has a large collection of precious Chinese immigrants documents for the museum funded by thousands of researchers and related ethnic group research. Yang Liwei and his colleagues spent two years before finishing finished 300 boxes of documents, as increasing collection, the museum must also expand the storage space.

Museum's collection of Chinese immigration history files, mostly from California, the first Chinese lawyer Y. T. Horng descendants. Y. T. Horng in the 20th century, 20 and 50 years has helped tens of thousands of Chinese made American identity, including Arizona and California and other places, his descendants donated to the museum first-hand information on immigration, including his personal and family letters and His photographs and handled more than 7,000 immigration application files, "Every one case was the beginning of a family in the United States."

These files are the best testimony to the history of Chinese immigrants. Because Y. T. Horng China Town in Los Angeles, built in 1938, the maximum investors and owners, his old office now also seen. Interestingly, through his collection of Chinese restaurant menus, 1940 price level at a glance, for example, only 65 cents a bowl of noodles. In addition, when all Chinese, whether legal residence, are required to carry identity cards, "Obviously the Chinese are considered second-class citizens."