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1. 976.2/004951 - A study showing how the Mississippi Chinese have been able to expand their social and economic potential and are now moving away from their restrictive beginnings

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2. 976.242-S - This book explores the lives of the Chinese community in Greenville, Mississippi. Introduction... Page 1 First Step... Page 3 When and Why... Page 4 Beginning Steps... Page 8 The Chinese Mission... Page 22 The Chinese School... Page 38 The Chinese Cemetary... Page 46 Recolletions From Former and Current Greenville chinese Citizens... Page 71 Notes and Credits... Page 143

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3. 976.242-S - This book explores the lives of the Chinese community in Greenville, Mississippi. Introduction... Page 1 First Step... Page 3 When and Why... Page 4 Beginning Steps... Page 8 The Chinese Mission... Page 22 The Chinese School... Page 38 The Chinese Cemetary... Page 46 Recolletions From Former and Current Greenville chinese Citizens... Page 71 Notes and Credits... Page 143

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4. 976.4-M - The story begins with Sam MarDock (born in 1862 in Canton, China,as Mar Yum Eh) arriving in California by ship in 1875. Sam worked on ranches and the railroad. His railroad job led him to Tyler, Texas, where he spent the rest of his life, aside from a few trips to China, one of which led to marriage to Wong Shee in 1897. Because of immigration laws, Sam's wife couldn't come to the United States until 1912. Three children were born in Tyler, Texas. Sam died in 1942 in Tyler, Texas.

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5. 977-F

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6. 977-L - A study of Chinese Americans in St. Louis with bibliographic references and an index.

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7. 978 - A Quaterly magazine published by the Montana Historical Society. This issue is a special about the Gold Rush and was published in Autumn 1999.

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8. 978-B - Setting and Founders of Kemmerer, Wyoming and the Coal industry that developed

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9. 978-J - "The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to deepen understanding of the Chinese history of the region by recovering their stories in their own words and by understanding the Chinese experiences in Montana through a global lens"-

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10. 978-S - 150 Years of the Chinese Presence in California (1848-2001)

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11. 978-W - "This vivid first-person account addresses multiple themes through the lens of Wong's personal stories. During the height of racist anti-Chinese US immigration laws, illegal aliens were able to come into the United States under false papers identifying them as the sons of those who had returned to China to marry and have children. American Paper Son is the story of one such Chinese immigrant who came to Wichita, Kansas, in 1935 as a thirteen-year-old 'paper son' to help in his father's restaurant there."

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12. 978-W - This book is about the Chinese who came to Lewiston during the late nineteenth century were from the Toishan district of southern China's Guangdong Province, a rural area of the Chu Jiang (Pearl River) delta. These immigrants brought their religion with them and practiced it here until the latter part of the twentieth century.

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13. 978-W - This book is about the Chinese who came to Lewiston during the late nineteenth century were from the Toishan district of southern China's Guangdong Province, a rural area of the Chu Jiang (Pearl River) delta. These immigrants brought their religion with them and practiced it here until the latter part of the twentieth century.

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14. 978.1-W - American Paper Son is the story of a Chinese immigrant (Wayne Hung Wong) who came to Wichita, Kansas, in 1935 as a thirteen-year-old "paper son" to help in his father's restaurant there. He serviced in an all-Chinese American unit in the U.S. Army in China during WWII. After the war, he found a wife in Taishan, brought her to the U.S. and became involved in the government's infamous Confession program. He eventually became a successul real-estate entrepreneur in Wichita.

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15. 978.3-C - In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. This book, authored May-lee Chai, offers a depiction of the racism suffered by them in rural South Dakota.

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16. 978.6-E - A Quaterly magazine published by the Montana Historical Society. This issue is a special about the Gold Rush and was published in Autumn 1999.

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17. 979-C - This book is a result of exploration, research, and writing by Sandra Kim and Janine Tillotson's third grade class at Wing Luke Elementary School. The writings and photographs contained within represent a sampling of the work completed by students as part of a unique project done in partnership with the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Kawabe Memorial House, and several local poets and photographers. Students were given access to the interior of the Kong Yick in order to increase their appreciation of the exploration of the building, students conducted research at local libraries and gathered oral histories from the residents of the Kawabe Memorial House, a local retirement community.

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18. 979-E

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19. 979-E - Focusing on the influx of Chinese immigrants to Idaho during the Gold Rush period in the late 1800s.

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20. 979-F - Archaeological information on Chinatown in Phoenix.

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