By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up one-fifth of the ... Only a few Chinese women came to the U.S. before 1880, but many of those who did served as prostitutes for people like ...

Chinese immigration dropped from 5,000 in 1904 to just eight people the following year. More than 15,000 Chinese came to Canada in the early 1880s to build the most dangerous and difficult section ...

The intrigue: Lin says that, while researching for her book, she found racist "Yellow Peril" novels of the 1880s, drowned in the Book of Revelation imagery, warning that Chinese immigrants are ...