How were their lives in the United State?

The Chinese forces to go to the United State to escape the civil wars and economic trouble in China. In fact, when they arrived to the United State first, it was too hard to them to live with American. Have you through there were many Chinese immigrate to the United State, and the cultures of China are very different with American’s. So how were their lives here? What’s different with in the China? And what’s similar in the China?

Most of Chinese went to the United State became laborer. The first Chinese were hired in 1865 at about 28 dollars a month (1). They were very hard-working and enterprising, even it was slow and difficult to them. They also used techniques they had learned in China to complete their work. There were many Chinese workers and laborers died and perished in the winter and dangerous conditions (2). Their works are systematic and effectives that make a lot of profit for the Company. According the data statistic, by the summer of 1868, there were 4000 workers helped build the California Central Railroad, two thirds of them were Chinese (3).  They had their own community; they lived in simply dwellings (log cabins), cooked their own meals and talked their own language. They workday was from sunrise to sunset, six days in the weed. When they had free time or had vacations, they often went to fishing or dried oysters, fruits, mushrooms and seaweed to make their own traditional food (4). They didn’t spend a lot, they save about 20 dollars a month to give back to their family.

    In the late 19^th century, not only the male came to the United State, but also the female did. At first, because of the Chinese conventional rules, women must stay at home; take care of their husbands, kids and housework. Also the language battier was the most important reason that the Chinese American women hardly worked outside of their jobs (5).

There were some children followed their parents to come to the United State in the 19^th Century. Under their traditional thoughts, parents tried to drill Chinese language and culture to their kids, sent then to Chinese schools and stay with other Chinese children, encouraged their children to excel in American Education, and arranged their marriages (6).   

             Also, the Chinese student was an important part of Sino-American. At that time, Qing Government blocked the people to travel, but the students. So that a good opportunity to the Chinese students to go to the United State. One the one hand, they would face more challenges in their life that will help them in the future; on the other hand, they had more choice to choose stay in the United State or go back to China.
Actually, the life of the Sino-American was hard and painstaking, not like today. We can image how hard it was! They had the different language, different culture, and different custom and different thought. They must spend much time to into another community successful

                                                             Citation
       (1)   "CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD." CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013
       (2)   "CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD." CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013
       (3)   "CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD." CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013
       (4)   "CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD." CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2013
       (5)   Poon, Weichi. "Overview of the History of Chinese Immigrant Women." THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF CHINESE IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN THE U.S. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2013.