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On Tue, 25 Jan 1994, Yang Cai wrote:

> Hi! I'm a graduate student in sociology. I'm looking for data on Chinese
> immigrants coming to the U.S. I'm interested in their demographic info, e.g.,
> occupation before they came. I'm interested in the data as far back as
> possible. Please reply to my personal address: CAI@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.
> Thanks.
> Yang Cai
>

The 1910 Census PUS has info on occupation and industry at the time of
enumeration, not prior to immigration.  The 1910 PUS is available through
ICPSR.

I believe that the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies has put early ship's
passenger lists into databases.  This may have more of the info you seek,
providing they have coverage of the ports and time periods of interest.

The Balch is in Philadelphia at (215) 925-8090.

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