As early as Colonial time, many Chinese has immigrated to colonies. Although Chinese people were enslaved by colonist, they were part of the working class. Until late 1800s, most Chinese people works at mine field and rail road sites. Few Chinese people started small businesses. In the following picture, A Chinese immigrant are selling lilies at China town.
This picture above depicted a Chinese immigrant’s life in US at 1900s. This picture reflected the improvement of the Chinese Immigrant.
This was a dream come true for the Chinese people as they escaped a communist China to become free im America
Daniel, you made an interesting point on Chinese immigrants. However, I think for most of the immigrants, coming to the US is always a dream come true.
From the dress on the first picture, I doubt he’s escaped from communism in China, which started at 1949. He’s probably one of the early Chinese immigrants who came to US to build the rail road.