CHINAMEN IN AMERICA

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 13.

CHINAMEN IN AMERICA.

[From Leslie's Monthly for February.]

It is estimated that there are about 100,000 Chinamen in the United States, and that 20,000 of them are in San Francisco. There is a considerable Chinese colony in New York and there are small colonies in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago. Though they do not belong to the educated classes, 95 per cent of them can read and write. A daily paper in the Chinese language is published in San Francisco and another in New York.

Nearly all the Chinamen in the United States come from the single province of Kwong Tung, the most populous of the eighteen provinces of the Chinese Empire. Its capital is Canton. Six counties of this province send out most of the emigrants to the United States. The inhabitants of this province have for centuries been more adventurous and fonder of traveling than the rest of their fellow countrymen, and they are always ready to face danger if there is a good chance of profit.