Old photos: Did the poor in the late Qing Dynasty "work as foreign workers" to reproduce the life in Chinatown?

Children playing with braids. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, many poor people in China could not live and were treated like? Selling pigs? It was shipped to California to build the Pacific Railway or dig for gold. Although they have made great contributions to the local economic construction, they are regarded as? Second-class citizens? And it is stipulated that you can only live in a certain area to avoid it? Pollution? Other places. At first, these immigrants from China had to move around Dupan Street in San Francisco. Later, new immigrants moved into this area and gradually developed into? Chinatown? .

Men in Chinatown. German photographer Arnold? Arnold Genthe, who accidentally entered Chinatown in San Francisco, was attracted by the unique lifestyle here, where he took a group of street photographs with strong documentary characteristics and made them into photo albums for distribution. These photos were taken around 1906. ?

The little girl looked at the toy curiously. When Arnold took these photos, China on the other side of the ocean was at the end of Empress Dowager Cixi's rule, and the Qing court was already in turmoil and was not far from extinction. ?

Children playing with braids. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, many poor people in China could not live and were treated like? Selling pigs? It was shipped to California to build the Pacific Railway or dig for gold. Although they have made great contributions to the local economic construction, they are regarded as? Second-class citizens? And it is stipulated that you can only live in a certain area to avoid it? Pollution? Other places. At first, these immigrants from China had to move around Dupan Street in San Francisco. Later, new immigrants moved into this area and gradually developed into? Chinatown? .

Children in front of the restaurant. These immigrants who broke away from the Qing dynasty still maintained their domestic lifestyle. What is written on the street, what is heard is China people, and what is seen is the traditional scenery of China. People use goods from China to precious jewels, but they all come from the United States? Little China? .

People shopping in Chinatown. After reading these photos, my biggest question is that these men are far from the control of Empress Dowager Cixi. Why don't they cut off big braid? You know, the big braid on your head is neither beautiful nor hygienic. It takes time to take care of it, and it will get in your way at work. Is it cool to cut a pair of scissors and have short hair in a foreign country?