04 Jun 2003

Separate lives, broken dreams: Saga of Chinese Immigration
National Asian American Telecommunications Association & Jennie Lew, San Francisco, CA, USA
Self-description: "The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a turning point in American history. It is, however, one which seldom receives anything more than a passing reference in most history books. The Act barred all Chinese from U.S. citizenship by naturalization, and specifically excluded Chinese laborers and their families from entering the United States. Immigration, based on race and class, was now an official part of American public policy. It opened the door to subsequent racially biased restrictions and outright exclusion of other immigrant groups. 'Separate lives, broken dreams' [site] explores the deep and broad impact that Chinese Exclusion had on individual lives, families, and entire communities in America and China."
Site contents: (1) Program information (information on 1993 TV broadcast in the US: Synopsis; Crew bios; Charles Wong's letter; Judge Brazil's speech; Statue of Liberty document); (2) Immigration documents (Individual case files, incl. that of Sun Yatsen; NARA government documents; Researching at NARA); (3) Exclusion (Anti-Chinese cartoons; MOCA - Chinese exclusion literature; Bigler & Asing); (4) Glossary of terms; (5) Resources [links to 50 specialist resources - ed.].
URL http://www.naatanet.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.naatanet.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/
Link suggested by Deike Zimmann, Hamburg, Germany via Hanno Lecher (http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30