Overseas Chinese history and culture of co-insurance
USINFO | 2013-10-24 15:00

Early Chinese immigrants in Australia are using envelopes and receipts
 

San Bernardino County, site of the United States on China Town "Chinese house."
 

Rating agency in Hong Kong, Jan. 20 / Xinhua recently, Stanford University Archaeology Center called "underground city" cultural relics exhibition, the exhibits were unearthed early Chinese immigrants in Silicon Valley items. The exhibition aims to restore the 1887 China Town in San Jose, California, to revive. Exhibition founder RongMeili want to put the "city under the city" continues to be extended to New York, Seattle and other places, so that more people know about the early Chinese immigrants in the United States history. 
  

Coinsurance history and culture   
Daily reported that Stanford University "underground city" relics exhibition, not the United States, founded the first Chinese artist RongMeili a history of the early Chinese immigrants as the theme of the exhibition. In 2004 she had planned in Idaho, a group of laborers on the construction of railways, gold mining exhibitions, and in the last year with the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, did the first Chinese city excavated materials will be made public.  
 

Recently, more and more Chinese civil society organizations recognize the protection of early Chinese sites, improve the importance of the history of overseas Chinese immigrants.

  
According to the United States "newspaper" reported on September 9, the U.S.Bernardino County Chinese city ruins were removed currently facing the fate of many Chinese organizations have said that we will strive to preserve "a Chinese house."  
 

Canadian railway laborers Memorial Foundation was created called "connecting link" website, through the precious historical pictures and interview data, record the laborers in Canada, hundreds of years of history.   

Not only civil society, governments organizations also contribute to Chinese historical heritage. New Zealand government has set up a S $ 5 million fund to finance research Zealand Chinese history, culture and language preservation work.  
 

Canada's three Chinese sites, including the Victoria Chinatown, warm island Hanning Chinese Cemetery and Buck WaiKokChee Kung Tong, have been awarded with a national historic attractions.
   
With memory and hard struggle   
Zhongshan, Guangdong Museum of Overseas Chinese Relics Collection group of people at work, deeply felt, every one artifacts reflect the history of overseas Chinese unremitting struggle. A yellowed receipts behind the Chinese in Australia in the early 20th century the local fruit industry was brilliant once. From those humble washboard and iron in, but you can see the early American and Australian Chinese laundries flourish.  
 

However, those earliest overseas Chinese immigrants, but a long period of humiliation and darkness. In October last year, Guangdong Province, Dongguan Exhibition Gallery 100 pieces old paintings, photographs and other historical documents, showing a large number of laborers in the late Qing Dynasty called "exploitation" in the process of misfortune.   
First to the United States and Canada, and other countries are also facing a similar fate Chinese. 19th century gold rush set off a wave of Chinese emigration. 1882 according to the United States passed the notorious "Chinese Exclusion Act" to restrict entry of Chinese immigrants, and in 1910 set up in Angel Island Immigration jail. Countless Chinese killed in detention in the dark, while ruining their evidence "Angel Island" is always possidetis remained.  
 

Speak louder than words, immigration history showing the historical truth, no country can turn a blind eye. In 2006, the Canadian federal government officially on the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 and the unequal "poll tax" apology. June 2012, the United States formally to legislate on "Chinese Exclusion Act" to apologize to all Chinese Americans.
  

For a better future   
for many early settlers sites dedicated to protecting Chinese, the Chinese people around the world have a common ancestry and cultural backgrounds, the old building is entrusted with one kind of early strong emotion. In their view, the preservation of these sites not only promote cultural traditions, but also to help future generations to understand what was the Chinese life, cherish the memory of their ancestors history of struggle.
  

In fact, the early Chinese immigrants in gold mining, railways, but also for local economic development has made important contributions. Their history, not just overseas Chinese history, but also an important part of the history of the country.  
 

Thomas Sowell in his book "A Brief History of American race," said, in many ways, has been integrated into American society, the Chinese community, still holds its own unique values and ethnic identity, which in the history of American race is definitely a "substantial achievement. " The Chinese tradition of studious, but also to their local status has improved.   

August 2012, the Australian House of Representatives passed a resolution in recognition of Chinese immigrants to Australia to make a positive contribution to the building.  
 
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Chinese immigrants in Brazil, the Brazilian Federal Senate in December 2012 held a special meeting to tour Pakistan overseas Chinese for the Brazilian contribution to economic and social development and achievements tribute.
  

RongMeilireproduceearly in the course of the history of Chinese immigrants interviewed a lot of the older generation of Chinese. She admitted that many people are reluctant to recall this painful history, but they will eventually come out about their own experiences unreservedly. Because they understand, not forgetting the past, in order to better the future.

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