Humanities Homework Help

Answer any 2 questions from the list below.

1 Based on Chang’s book (Introduction chapter) discuss what were some of the important aspects of Chinese American experience.

2. Discuss in what way their experience was similar to other minority groups in America.

3 Discuss “middleman minority” as a term about overseas Chinese in places like Southeast Asia.

4 Discuss how Chang defines Chinese American identity.

5. Based on the article on Chinese railroad laborers, discuss some of the things that impressed you most about them and explain why.

6. Discuss why people disagree with the death toll of Chinese laborers during the construction.

7. Describe what were some of the most difficult challenges Chinese railroad laborers encountered during the construction.

8. Discuss what was Chinese laborers’ life like when they were working on the railroad.

9. Discuss why most of Chinese laborers or other Chinese chose to have their bones sent back to China if death occurred.

10. Share your opinion or comment on Maxine Hong Kingston’s remark: “After the Civil War, China Men banded the nation North and South, East and West, with crisscrossing steel. They were the binding and building ancestors of this place.”