Chinese-American Legal History The Chinese-American Legal History Foreword Chinese Americans, including from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and around the world, and later became naturalized U.S. citizen of Chinese and their descendants. Their number to 2009 about 3 million 80 million of the total population, 1.2%.

 Most of them live in the metropolitan New York area, Northern California and Los Angeles.  is the most famous Chinese-American Republic of China Sun Yat-sen, who was born in Hawaii, there are other famous people Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee, Chen Ning Yang, Steven Chu, and politicians Wu Xian standard, Locke, Elaine Chao, lawyer Qiu Chang, entertainers Bruce Lee. Chinese Americans in the past two years, by American whites of discrimination, the famous Chinese Exclusion Act was only abolished until 1943. California Legislature in 2009, the United States Senate in 2011, the official history of the American Chinese Exclusion Act of apology.

In law, whether in America or Taiwan, the United States have not signed the Extradition Ordinance, so if hiding after committing a crime in China, the United States, justice may be not seize.  Chinese in the United States is known as the "model" minority, they do not like blacks vigorous fight for their rights and interests; even discrimination in the workplace, but also Duomo Mo silent, generally take. According to the 2005 U.S. Equal Employment Commission (EEOC) investigation, the Chinese workplace discrimination ratio of 31%, 26% higher than blacks, but less people to litigation to resolve the problem.