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China Connection: Finding Ancestral Roots for Chinese in America

Guide to doing Chinese family history. Gathering information and records, 'paper names', amnesty program, immigration, Angel Island, ancestral tablets. Calligraphy, charts and illustrations.

Memories of Gold, Memories of Silk

Prince Nithakhong Somsanith of Laos was initiated early in his childhood to the arts of the royal court, notably the art of gold thread embroidery. Today he commutes between France and Luang Prabang where he continues this creative duty that ties him…

Shock and Shame

Letter to newspaper. Author expresses dissatisfaction with the Chiense community, he hopes they set a better example and are more charitable to other people.

Blood and sweat over the railway tracks : the Chinese labourers in the Canadian Pacific Railway construction (1880-1885)

A recollection of the CPR Construction which employed thousands of Chinese labourers to build the transcontinental railway linking this country from coast to coast.