In 1943 the U.S. government did away with the Chinese Exclusion Act, because China had become a World War II ally. This allowed Chinese to come into the United States. Chinese already living here were allowed to apply for citizenship. Nearly all of "Pershing’s Chinese" did.
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The workers who had arrived before 1882 were very different from those who arrived after 1943. After World War II, northern Chinese came to the United States. Many were doctors, scientists, and engineers. They were allowed to bring their families.
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1990 census of Chinese population |
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|
County Residents |
|
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Harris |
25,019 |
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Dallas |
8,833 |
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Travis |
4,741 |
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Tarrant |
4,341 |
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Ft. Bend |
4,072 |
| Collin | 3,116 |
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Bexar |
2,557 |
Houston
is the city with the largest Chinese population in Texas today. Chinese
Texans now work in universities, at NASA, and in nearly every kind of
business in Texas cities. In Houston there are so many Chinese-operated
businesses that there is a privately printed Chinese Yellow Pages. There
are also several newspapers printed in Chinese, such as the Southern
Chinese Daily News.
| Chinese Texans | |
| The Chinese First Come to America | |
| The Chinese, the Railroad, and Texas | |
| The Chinese Face Exclusion Laws | |
| The Chinese and Mexico | |
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| Chinese Customs and Traditions | |
| The Chinese Schools | |
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