Chinatown, San Jose, USA

The focus of this book is the Chinese settlement of Heinlenville, located in San Jose, California from 1887-1931. The author, Connie Young Yu, draws on family records and correspondence, oral interviews with former residents, and newspaper accounts of the period. The story is told against a broad background of information on Chinese immigration and years of federal anti-Chinese legislation that set the stage for discrimination against the Chinese in San Jose and in other cities in California.

This history was originally published in 1991 by the San Jose Historical Museum Association (now History San José).