Internet resources for Chinese-Americans

American Memory provides free and open access through the
Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings,
still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that
document the American experience. It is a digital record of
American history and creativity. These materials, from the
collections of the Library of Congress and other
institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places,
and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public
as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates
nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration
to California through about 8,000 images and pages of
primary source materials. Included are photographs,
original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters,
excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal
documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches,
sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents
describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in
California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions.
They also document the specific contributions of Chinese
immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art,
agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social
life in California. Chinatown in San Francisco receives
special treatment as the oldest and largest community of
Chinese in the United States. Although necessarily
selective, such a large body of materials presents a full
spectrum of representation and opinion. The materials in
this online compilation are drawn from collections at The
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; The
Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley;
and The California Historical Society, San Francisco.

Asian Pacific American History in Oregon is part of the Oregon History Project undertaken by Oregon Hisotical Society to collect, preserve, and promote access to, the information about Asian Pacific Americans immigrated to America from the continent of Asia (including India). Included in the scope of the project are the Chinese who started to arrive in the Oregon Territory in the early 1850s.

Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants
toiled
at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to
help construct America's First Transcontinental Railroad.
The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project
seeks
to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the
Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and
social landscape of the American West. The Project
coordinates research in the United States and Asia in
order
to create an on-line digital archive available to all.

Chung Sai Yat Po was published in San Francisco from Feb.
1900 to 1951. It has a long publishing history and almost
all its issues survived. It provides readers important
sources about the history of Chinese immigration in the
first half of the twentieth century. The collection includes
14 microfilm reels and 1,460 online items. Selected issues
can be viewed on the website.

This website hosted by the U.S. National Park Service makes
available five e-books respectively aabout the history of
Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, American Indians,
Black Americans, and Mexican Americans in California.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-
based collection of historical materials from Harvard's
libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary
immigration to the United States from the signing of the
Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to
the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200
books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from
manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800
photographs. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and
other writings capturing diverse experiences, the
collected material provides a window into the lives of
ordinary immigrants.

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present, has information
of newspapers published in the United States since 1690 and
can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and
time, and how to access them.

This Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories is part of
Delta State University Archives' Oral History Collection.
The oral history project was funded by the Mississppi
Humanities Council and was completed in 2000. The
Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories consists of
interviews focusing on the history and culture of the
Chinese people in the Mississippi Delta.

The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, the Oberlin
College East Asian Studies Program, and the Oberlin
College Archives and Library present this online digital
collection that documents the activity of Oberlinians in
Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. This teaching and
research collection contains materials from the Oberlin
Shansi Memorial Association Records and personal paper
collections, and it represents a small percentage of the
total amount of materials in the College Archives that
relate to the work of missionaries and Shansi
Representatives in China and as well as other countries.