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Gold is discovered in California, sparking a gold rush by Americans, immigrant Chinese and others. Americans establish a foreign concession in Shanghai.

Thousands of Chinese workers recruited to build the western section of the Trans-continental Railroad, which was completed in 1869, a year ahead of schedule. Anti-Chinese riots start to occur throughout the West until the turn of the century

Burlingame Treaty

Saint John’s University

Chinese Exclusion Act

killing at least 28 Chinese miners and burning 75 Chinese homes

white,

Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinitel

The Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinitel

U.S. declares war against Japan.

Chinese Exclusion Act repealed for military, political, and economic reasons, but quotas remain.

The U.S. recognizes only the Republic of China

1965 Immigration Act, allowing large-scale “family reunification” immigration of Chinese to the U.S. for the first time

The Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinit

Chinese American Vincent Chin is killed in Detroit by two white men who mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for the competition that that had taken their auto-industry jobs

The first American fast food company (Kentucky Fried Chicken) opens in China

The American-led NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade

Wang Zhizhi becomes the first Chinese basketball player to be drafted by an NBA team

Congress grants China permanent Most Favored Nation

China gains entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), and is awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics.

wo Chinese Americans are appointed to the Obama cabinet: Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, and Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce. Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. is appointed as ambassador to China