Diasporas

The history of Chinese overseas is well over 1000 years.
The rich documentation on these people cumulated over the
years now serves as permanent records of their profound
contributions to the social and economic developments of
their origins and residing places as well as to the
cultural exchange of the world. Being a part of Chinese
history, these documentation and information also help to
strengthen the link, communication, interaction and
cooperation among the Chinese, not to mention their
special value to the Chinese overseas themselves.With a

Lat Pau, the longest running Chinese daily during pre-War
Singapore, was started by Mr See Ewe Lay in December 1881
and lasted 52 years before it finally ceased in March 1932.
Lat Pau is an invaluable historical source for research into
pre-war Singapore as well as Chinese overseas during that
period. Unfortunately the earliest issues of the newspaper
were lost and now the issues extant at the system cover only
the period August 19 1887 to March 31 1932.

The Sin Kuo Min Press, later entitled Sin Kok Min Jit Pao,
is one of the most influential official newspapers and
journals published by the Kuomintang in cities where many
Overseas Chinese were residing. It is an invaluable
historical source for the study of modern Chinese revolution
and Chinese Overseas during that period of time. This
project presents a collections from 1919 to 1933.

The Cheekungtong (also known as Chinese Freemasons)
of Victoria, British Columbia, was founded in 1876
and functioned as an unofficial organization to
maintain order in the Chinese communities.

This digitized collection consists of records that
reflect the functions of the Chinese Freemasons of
Canada, especially in Victoria and Vancouver; their
activities supporting the Chinese communities in
Canada; the lives and concerns of their members in
British Columbia; and their ties with China, spanning

The Chinatown of Victoria, British Columbia, is a
major historical gateway to the Chinese in Canada. It
was once the major entry port for Asian immigration
to British North America, and later to Canada. From
the late 1850s to the 1860s, it was the primary
springboard for several thousand Chinese gold miners
heading to the Fraser River valley and the Cariboo;
and, in the 1880s it was the main entry point for the
estimated 15,000 Chinese builders of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. It is the oldest Chinatown in

Teochew Letters is a website set up and maintained by the
Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication, Shantou
University, to promote knowledge about qiaopi, a combination
of remittance and correspondence that is also known as the
Teochew Letters (\Qiaopi\ in Mandarin).

The Qiaopi Database is a digital project conducted by the
Shantou University Library to display and promote its
special colleciton of Qiaopi (侨批), remittance receipts
in the form of family letters from overseas Chinese to
their families in China. Most of the surviving qiaopi have
been preserved by archives in Guangdong and Fujian
Province. Qiaopi, as a unique type of historical
documents, has been recognized since 2003 as the world's
documentary heritage on the list of the UNESCO Memory of
the World. This database of Shantou University has

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.

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.

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.