成为美国人：华人的经历 Becoming American: The Chinese Experience(2003)

又名: 成为美国人——华人的经历

制片国家/地区: 美国

上映日期: 2003-03-25

集数: 3 IMDb: tt0810498 豆瓣评分：0 下载地址：迅雷下载

简介：

In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, this program traces the history and experiences of Chinese in the U.S., from the Gold Rush in California and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act which barred their entry into the country.

演员：

比尔·莫耶斯(导演)

影评：

If you are a Chinese living, lived or want to live in US, you must watch these 3 DVDs, Gold Mountain Dream, Between two worlds and No Turning Back.

Here is the brief timeline:

1830s Chinese sailors and peddlers visit New York.
1844 United States and China sign treaty of "peace, amity, and commerce."
1847 Yung Wing and two other Chinese students arrive in US for schooling.
1848 Gold is discovered in California and a gold rush begins.
1850 Chinese American population in U.S. is about 4,000 out of a population of 23.2 million. Chinese in California form associations for mutual protection.
1860 Chinese American population in US is 34,933 out of a total population of 31.4 million.
1865 Central Pacific recruits Chinese workers to build a transcontinental railroad.
1868 First transcontinental railroad is completed.
1870 Chinese American population in US is 63,199 out of a total population of 38.5 million.
1871 Anti-Chinese violence erupts in Los Angeles and other cities. Such violence continues throughout the decade.
1882 Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
1890 Chinese American population in U.S. is 107,488 out of a total population of 62.9 million.
1898 In Wong Kim Ark v. U.S., courts rule that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen.

1906 Earthquake destroys all records in San Francisco, including immigration records.

1910 Chinese American population in U.S. is 94,414 out of a total population of 92.2 million. Angel Island Immigration Station opens to process potential Asian immigrants.

1930 Chinese American population in U.S. is 102,159 out of a total population of 123.2 million.
Eyewitness: Tommy Wong - Employment Discrimination

1932 Anna May Wong, at the height of her career, stars with Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express.

1941 The United States declares war after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. China is now an ally of the United States.

1943 Congress repeals all Chinese exclusion laws, grants Chinese the right to become naturalized citizens, and allows 105 Chinese to immigrate to the US each year.

1945 World War II ends with atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

1950 Chinese American population in U.S. is 150,005 out of 151,325,798.

1965 A new immigration act effectively removes racial bias from America's immigration laws.

1970 Chinese American population of the U.S. is 237,292 out of 179,323,175

1976 American physicist Samuel Ting wins the Nobel Prize in Physics

1982 Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, is killed by two white Americans. Chin's killers are sentenced only to probation and a find of $3,000 plus court fees.

1982 Maya Lin's design selected for the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.

1987 TIME Magazine publishes a cover article entitled "The New Whiz Kids". Many Chinese Americans express a concern about a "model minority" stereotype.

1990 Chinese American population of the U.S. is 1,645,472 out of 248,709,873.

1996 Dr. David Ho is named TIME Magazine's Man of the Year for his research into HIV/Aids.

1997 The Democratic Party finds itself embroiled in a fundraising scandal. Fundraiser John Huang is singled out for condemnation and suspicion, raising concerns that age-old prejudices against Chinese Americans are being revived.

1999 Dr. Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwan-born U.S. citizen working as a physicist in the weapons section of the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratories, is arrested on charges of spying for China. He spends 278 days in solitary confinement before being released with an apology from a US District Judge.

2000 Chinese American population of the U.S. is 2,879,636 out of 281,421,904.