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The Chinese in Hawaii constitute about 4.7% of the state's population, most of whom (75%) have ancestors from Zhongshan in Guangdong. This number does not include people of mixed Chinese and Hawaiian descent. If all people with Chinese ancestry in Hawaii (including the Chinese-Hawaiians) are included, they form about 1/3 of Hawaii's entire population. Being U.S citizens, they are a group of Chinese Americans. Statue of Sun Yat-sen in Sunwen Memorial Park. ...
Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣æ±; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Native Hawaiians (in Hawaiian, kanaka oiwi or kanaka mÄoli) are the Polynesian peoples of the Hawaiian Islands who trace their ancestry back to Marquesan and possibly Tahitian settlers (starting circa 400 CE), before the arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook in 1778. ...
Official language(s) Hawaiian and English Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 43rd 28,337 km² n/a km 2,450 km 41. ...
Motto: E pluribus unum (1789 to 1956) (Latin: Out of Many, One) In God We Trust (1956 to present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at federal level; English de facto Government • President • Vice President Federal republic George...
A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ...
Origins
Historical records indicated that the earliest of the Chinese from Guangdong province, who came in three initial waves of immigration: in 1778 with Captain Cook's journey, in 1788 with Kaina, and in 1789 with an American trader settled in Hawaii in the late 18th century. Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣æ±; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
British explorer James Cook is most noted for having discovered Australia and Hawaii. ...
1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
By 1790, a handful of them were in the island of O'ahu, including the 1789 group, living together with the chief Kamemhameha the Great. Because these Chinese men did not bring any Chinese women along with them, they took in Hawaiian wives instead, and frequently, adopting Chinese-Hawaiian surnames like Akaka, Ahina, etc, in which words of Chinese origin are pronounced with a soft Hawaiian tone. The practice of taking in Hawaiian women continued right into the 19th century, when Chinese women were still considered a rarity in Hawaii. The Island of Oahu. ...
Kamehameha, also known as Kamehameha I and Kamehameha the Great (circa 1758-1819), unified the Hawaiian Islands in battle and formally established the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810. ...
The largest number of Chinese immigrants, some 46,000, came to Hawai'i between 1850 and annexation of Hawai'i to the United States in 1898, most of them after 1875. Nearly all the Chinese immigrants came to Hawaii as landless villagers, thinking they would stay only long enough to make the fortune they wanted to take back home. Only by this time, the first Chinese women came to Hawaii. However, over half of the pre-annexation immigrants ultimately went back to live in China permanently. 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Several thousand Chinese immigrants gradually changed from temporary sojourners to permanent settlers. Among them were some who had married or established common-law marriages with Hawaiian women, while the other men took in the first female Chinese settlers in Hawaii. Common-law marriage (or common law marriage), sometimes called informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute is, historically, a form of interpersonal status in which a man and a woman are legally married. ...
The Chinese boys were drawn into Christian missionary schools and later into the unsegregated public schools. Due to the fact that there were excellent employment opportunities in Hawaii, as well as the high value placed by Chinese on education, the Chinese parents encouraged their sons to get a formal education. As more and more Chinese converted to Christianity after the establishment of the first Chinese Church of Hawaii, they eventually abandoned their traditional indifference and even opposition towards giving formal education to their daughters. Chinese women were allowed to work in professional jobs, especially as school teachers. Many local Chinese were sent to the mainland United States for professional training before it was available in the islands, and hundreds of Hawaii-born Chinese still go to mainland universities for undergraduate or graduate education each year. A Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ. ...
The term public school has two contrary meanings: In England, one of a small number of prestigious historic schools open to the public which normally charge fees and are financed by bodies other than the state, commonly as private charitable trusts; here the word public is used much as in...
Although it is commonly thought that the present day Chinese in Hawaii are descendants of the pioneer sugar plantation contract laborers, this is something of a misconception. A larger proportion of island-born Chinese families are descended from rice plantation entrepreneurs, independent farmers, craftsmen, merchants, and a few professional men who found Hawaii a pleasant land of opportunity and made it home for themselves and their descendants, the descendants of the earliest pioneer groups could be well right into the seventh-generation. A sugarcane plantation at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 2005 A plantation is a large tract of monoculture, as a tree plantation, a cotton plantation, a tea plantation or a tobacco plantation. ...
Generation (From the Greek γιγνομαι), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. ...
Thus, as the Chinese in Hawaii secure their positions as business partners and leaders in Hawaii's multi-ethnic society, many of them look back towards their Chinese culture and traditions with pride and satisfaction. This is the current collaboration of the week! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ...
Religion Prior to the arrival of European Christian missionaries to Hawaii, the early Chinese settlers were worshippers of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, and even blending their beliefs with the traditional Hawaiian gods is also seen. Official language(s) Hawaiian and English Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 43rd 28,337 km² n/a km 2,450 km 41. ...
Buddhism (PÄli Buddhadhamma or Sanskrit Bauddhadharma) is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, SiddhÄrtha Gautama, who lived in the 5th century BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following his death, and propagated into Central, Southeast, and...
Taoism (sometimes written as Daoism) is the English name for: (a) a philosophical school based on the texts the Dao De Jing (ascribed to Laozi) and the Zhuangzi. ...
Confucianist temple Thian Hock Keng in Singapore Confucianism (Chinese: å„’å¦, Pinyin: Rúxué‚ [ ] , The School of the Scholars; or, less accurately, å”æ•™ KÅng jià o, The Religion of Confucius) is an East Asian ethical and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the early Chinese sage Confucius. ...
Today, due to the work of Christian missionaries in the late 19th century and the 20th century, the vast majority of the Chinese in Hawaii are adherents of Protestant and Roman Catholic Christianity. Still, about 100 Buddhist and ancestral Temples remain, and the loyal minority who adhere to Traditional Chinese religions pay pilgrimage to their ancestors annually. However, no accurate statistics of adherents within the Chinese community in Hawaii are available. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
List of notable Chinese people from Hawaii Daniel Kahikina Akaka (born September 11, 1924) is a U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. ...
Chang Apana (December 26, 1871-1933) was a Chinese-Hawaiian police officer in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the officially-acknowledged inspiration for the fictional Asian detective character, Charlie Chan, first introduced in 1925 in the mystery novel, House without a Key. Ah Ping Chang was born in Waipio, Oahu, Hawaii. ...
Brian Ching (born May 24, 1978 in Haleiwa, Hawaii) is an American soccer player, who currently plays forward for Houston of Major League Soccer. ...
Norman Chow (周å‹è³¢; pinyin: ZhÅu YÇ’uxián) (born May 3, 1946) is the offensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans, a National Football League team. ...
Kam Fong Chun played Chin Ho Kelly on the CBS television series Hawaii Five-O for ten years. ...
Gordon Paiea Chung-Hoon (é¾é›²(?), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 10, 1910 - July 24, 1979) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who served during World War II. His father, William Chung-Hoon Jr. ...
Hiram Fong Hiram Leong Fong (鄺友良; pinyin:Kuàng Yǒuliáng), formally Yau Leong Fong (October 15, 1906-August 18, 2004), was an American elder statesman and business tycoon industrialist from Hawaii. ...
Clayton Hee (born March 14, 1953) is a Native Hawaiian politician. ...
Donald Ho Tai Loy (Chinese: 何大來; Hanyu Pinyin: ; born August 13, 1930) is a famous Hawaiian musician and entertainer. ...
Hoku Ho (born June 10, 1981, commonly known as just Hoku) is a female Hawaiian musician and the daughter of Don Ho. ...
Kelly Hu Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, 1968) is an American actress. ...
Jason Scott Lee (æŽæˆª, pinyin: LÇ Jié, born November 19, 1966) is an American movie actor. ...
See also An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...
A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ...
External links - First Chinese Church of Hawaii
- List of Chinese-Hawaiian surnames
- Miss Chinatown Hawaii
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