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I need some help as I need to know somewhere I can find Chinese populations in North America by city/or region/state. Or, if this is only known in the United States, that might be fine as well. In particular, I'm looking for the Chinese populations in Portland and Vancouver and how the Chinese populations there ranks compared to other areas in North America. If only I knew someone who really knew geography who could help me, like someone who got a really high score on a geography test.... 😀
;D I'll see if there's anything in my book. What do you need to know? The first question should be WHY that area. Off the top of my head (not home now), I think the CA area has more % than the NW Pacific.
PNW got a huge influx of yacht people (and others) when Hong Kong went bach to the P R of China… folks that held Commonwealth passports and weren't too thrilled about being part of Communist China.
;D I'll see if there's anything in my book. What do you need to know? The first question should be WHY that area. Off the top of my head (not home now), I think the CA area has more % than the NW Pacific.
I was trying to find that information for a final paper I was completing (turned it in this evening). I was able to find general information and I already knew that Seattle had some 56,000 Chinese.
PNW got a huge influx of yacht people (and others) when Hong Kong went bach to the P R of China... folks that held Commonwealth passports and weren't too thrilled about being part of Communist China.
I wonder if it's also simply that the West Coast is much closer to Asia than the rest of the nation. It's kind of like how so many Irish settled in Boston and New York. I know that Dr. Sun Yat-Sen stayed in Vancouver for some time when he was doing the circuit getting ready to overthrow the emperor prior to 1911. So there apparently was a Chinatown there back then.
I wonder if it's also simply that the West Coast is much closer to Asia than the rest of the nation.
I think it's that too. Plus, as business and trade grew along the Pacific rim that brought more Chinese here.
Yes to both. Commonwealth status a major draw though… they were in w/o immigration hassles as we know them.
Go to the Government stacks of your university library (University of Minnesota probably has everything you could possibly want). Go to the Census Bureau section and start digging. Do a keyword specific search before you attempt to find the proper Census listing (trust me there's quite a bit to look through). Furthermore, you will want to focus in on migratory patterns (for push/pull factor analysis) and also to document the dates of most/least immigration activity. Nevermind I just read where you already turned in your paper LOL. But anyway, next time, that's where you need to begin looking for demographic vital statistics.
You should check out the Census Bureau website. There is a wealth of demographic information available if you have the time to get familiar with their crappy interface.I know this is late, but good luck on your paper anyway.
Thanks, all. It was a class on Chinese Gardens and my paper was essentially an analysis of three gardens in the Pacific Northwest that have been built since the mid-1980s in the style of historical Chinese gardens. The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver, built between 1985-1986, was the first major Chinese Garden built outside China.I had to take the class to fulfill my non-Western requirement. I pretty much knew absolutely nothing about Chinese history going into the class, much less Chinese garden history, so it was difficult to get into. However, it proved to be pretty interesting in the end. I realized that Chinese culture, from an historical perspective, is so different than the modern political regime in control over there right now. I would almost compare some Chinese classical thought with that of the ancient Greeks.
