Chinatown, 1864: The Road to Reign

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese laborers in America were treated as third-class citizens. Hostility and discrimination against them kept growing worse, and attacks, scams, and assassinations were everywhere! San Francisco’s Chinatown was a chaotic, disreputable place, with all kinds of people crowding its associations. Then one day, Tang Zhan stepped off a labor ship, a smile on his face. “I crossed half the world, and it certainly wasn’t to come here and work in a mine!”