Chinese Journey

Part Three of BECOMING AMERICAN: The Chinese Experience focuses on the personal dimensions of this contemporary experience. With legal obstacles removed, Chinese American families who have lived in this country for generations and a massive new wave of young, highly educated and upwardly mobile Chinese immigrants have struggled with the true meaning of becoming American.  Short collection of scenes from Bill Moyers documentary first screened on PBS in 2003.

Chinese laborers build the railroad

Outlines the Immigration Acts imposed on the Chinese immigrants