Contemporary Chinese American In Cultural Interaction Between China And America

Opium War broke the communication's barrier between China and western countries. With the voyaging line from North America to China set sail, some Cantonese in Pearl River Delta who emigrated to western part of America during the mid of 19C under complicated reasons, and formed Chinese communities there one after another. They spread Chinese culture orderly in western part of America Continent, including business culture (eating culture and dressing culture), architecture, science and education, religion beliefs and the ethics, customs, and so on. Chinese culture was propagated in two ways, the passive and the automatic one by different Chinese immigrates. The passive spreading style formed a special Chinese culture island in American society, called "Chinese culture vacuum", immune from the outside culture's effects; the automatic one promoted the culture communications between Chinese Americans and Americans, in a further step, they strengthened the culture melting between different culture cycles. Simultaneously the two spreading style in America formed an eastern peripheral culture in the kaleidoscope of American society. Consequently, with these Chinese Americans returned to their homelands, they brought back with American culture and living style definitely. The native culture, conflicting with the western civilization in multidimensional fields, then melted together and established a new overlapping culture with the typical western country's mark, in Chinese emigrating area, Pearl River Delta, so these Chinese American created the interaction unconsciously between China and American in the early days of 19C.