Date of Award
1994
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Dow, Tsung-I
Abstract
Chinese immigrants flocked to the West Coast of the United States when gold was discovered in the mid-1800s. Early Chinese sojourners answered California's call for cheap and reliable laborers. Those Chinese pioneering families who settled in Southeast Florida in the land boom years of the 1920s were not sojourners; they intended to make this country their home. They left behind not only the legacy of the Chinese grocery store tradition, but an educated progeny as well. The absence of a Chinatown facilitated the assimilation process. Yet it did not deter the community's efforts to maintain Chinese culture and tradition, which is achieved partly through the various Chinese language schools and partly through the publications of Chinese newspapers. The Chinese-American community in Southeast Florida is made up of Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and their native-born offspring. Contributing to Florida's rapidly growing Asian-American population, the Chinese make up a dynamic segment of the Sunshine State's new multicultural society.
Extent
145 p.
Recommended Citation
Gordy, Josephine Shih, "Chinese in southeast Florida, 1900-1992" (1994). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 554.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/554
Identifier
FADT15104
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters