Chinese Immigration To United States Essay

In 1872, First Official Delegation of Chinese Students Came to United States. IN 1870, the Chinese Education Mission (CEM) was formed by Yung Wing, a naturalized US citizen, with support from Chinese Chinese government. The program had thirty students, who get the American education, to be trained as diplomats and technical advisors to the government The program was ended by the Qing government, as to the growing anti Chinese sentiment in United States. Some of these students choose to stay in United States, and not to go back.

Chinese exclusion act.

However, there was a growing trend in America to exclude Chinese. There were about 100,100 Chinese in United Sates. During the civil war, when United States lacked of manpower, there was an enthusiasm that they preferred European immigrants

In the 1875, the Page law was passed in American congress. It was an act supplementary to the acts in relation to immigration. It stated that the immigration to United States should be free and voluntary. Any citizen of United States, or other person amenable to the laws of the United States who transported any Chinese, Japanese or any other Oriental country to United States, without content will be punished. Any deal of illegal supply of coolie labor is banned and punished. In this 1875 paper law, all illegal immigration had been denied. The

Early 1888, China and United States signed the Bayard - Zhang Treaty. Qing government agreed to prohibit o prohibit all new Chinese immigration for twenty years and limit the right to return of Chinese workers who had temporarily left the United States for home visits in China, intending to control the population of Chinese in United States. The congress also passed another act, Scott Act, to expand Chinese exclusion act. It prohibited Chinese labors abroad returning to United States after a trip back to China. Chinese challenged this act as unconstitutional, but in