A History of Chinese American Achievement

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Eight half-hour shows chronicle the story of Chinese Americans, their culture, their achievements, and thei contributions to the United States

This series tells the incredible story of Chinese American achievement, from the first wave of immigrants, who left war torn China for the safe haven of California's gold fields, and stayed to pioneer the west to the entrepreneurs of the 21st century's Information Age.

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The Chinese Find a New Homeland27 minutes$6.00
600 - Li Yan Chu Writes the First Account of a North American Exploration6 minutes$2.00
1823 - Chinese Entrepreneur Hung Tai Introduces Sugar Mills to Hawaii4 minutes$2.00
1850 - Yee Fung Cheung Pioneers California's Gold Rush9 minutes$2.00
1851 - Chinese Invention Revolutionizes Gold Mining3 minutes$2.00
Exclusion and Acceptance27 minutes$6.00
1854 - Yung Wing Becomes the First Chinese American to Graduate from a U.S. College4 minutes$2.00
1854 - Chinese Six Companies Represent All Chinese in the United States3 minutes$2.00
1862 - Chinese Americans Distinguish Themselves in the American Civil War3 minutes$2.00
1865 - Chinese American Laborers Build the Transcontinental Railroad4 minutes$2.00
1882 - Congress Passes the Chinese Exclusion Act3 minutes$2.00
1884 - Joseph and Mary Tape Successfully Challenge San Francisco Public Schools5 minutes$2.00
Chinese Americans Spread Their Wings28 minutes$6.00
1886 - San Francisco's Chinese American Laundry Men Sue for Equal Rights4 minutes$2.00
1887 - Doc Hay and Lung On Arrive on the Eastern Oregon Frontier4 minutes$2.00
1888 - Lue Gim Gong, Father of the Florida Citrus Industry4 minutes$2.00
1894 - Polly Bemis, an Angel in Idaho's Wilderness3 minutes$2.00
1906 - San Francisco Earthquake's Impacts on the Chinese American Community7 minutes$2.00
A New Chinese American Identity Emerges27 minutes$6.00
1911 - U.S. Citizen Sun Yat-Sen Becomes China's First President5 minutes$2.00
1921 - Anna May Wong, First Chinese American Female Hollywood Star6 minutes$2.00
1926 - You Chung Hong Leads the Fight for Chinese American Civil Rights6 minutes$2.00
1935 - Eddy See Initiates Chinese American Artistic Movement5 minutes$2.00
Chinese Americans Enter Mainstream Culture27 minutes$6.00
1935 - Katherine Cheung, the Chinese American "Amelia Earhart"4 minutes$2.00
1938 - Charlie Low's Forbidden City Nightclub Showcases Chinese American Performers3 minutes$2.00
1939 - Wah Ming Chang Joins the Disney Studios5 minutes$2.00
1939 - Chinese Americans Answer the Call to Defend Democracy7 minutes$2.00
1943 - Magnuson Act Repeals the Chinese Exclusion Act of 18822 minutes$2.00
The Chinese American Super Achievers29 minutes$6.00
1946 - Chinese Americans Breakthrough into U.S. Politics6 minutes$2.00
1957 - Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee Win the Nobel Prize in Physics4 minutes$2.00
1961 - I.M. Pei Designs Avant Garde NCAR Building in Boulder, Colorado4 minutes$2.00
1962 - F. Chow Chan Founds First Chinese American Bank4 minutes$2.00
1971 - Bruce Lee Brings Martial Arts into American Culture6 minutes$2.00
America Embraces Chinese Culture28 minutes$6.00
1974 - Miriam Lee Fights to Legalize Traditional Chinese Medicine in America5 minutes$2.00
1975 -Kingston, Hwang, and Chang the New Wave of Chinese American Writers7 minutes$2.00
1982 - Maya Ying Lin Designs the Vietnam War Memorial 6 minutes$2.00
1983 - Andrew and Peggy Cherng Found Panda Express    6 minutes$2.00
The Modern Chinese American29 minutes$6.00
1989 - Amy Tan Writes The Joy Luck Club  4 minutes$2.00
1989 - Chinese Americans Excel at Sports 3 minutes$2.00
1991 - John Sie Founds Cable Powerhouse Starz Encore6 minutes$2.00
1994 - Jerry Yang Co-founds Yahoo!  4 minutes$2.00
1996 - Time Magazine's Man of the Year is AIDS Researcher David Ho  3 minutes$2.00
2004 - Astronaut Dr. Leroy Chiao Votes from Space in the Presidential Election2 minutes$2.00
2009 - Yo-Yo Ma Performs at Barack Obama's Inauguration3 minutes$2.00
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