Editing Chinese Americans (section)

==== 19th century arrivals, cause for migration ====
Nearly all of the early Chinese migrants were young men from rural villages of [[Taishan City|Toisan]], as well as the [[Greater Taishan Region|eight districts]] in [[Guangdong Province]].<ref name="historyworld">International World History Project. {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20110527055848/http://history-world.org/asian_americans.htm Asian Americans]}}. Retrieved 14 March 2014.</ref> The Guangdong province, especially [[Taishan City|Toisan]], experienced extreme floods and famine in the mid-nineteenth century, as well as mass political unrest such as the [[Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)|Red Turban unrest]]. This prompted many people to migrate to America.<ref name="history.state.gov" />

The vast majority of the 19th century Chinese immigrants to the U.S. came from a small area of eight districts on the west side of the [[Pearl River Delta]] in Guangdong province. The eight districts consist of three subgroups—the four districts of [[Siyi|Sze Yup]], the district of [[Zhongshan|Chung Shan]], and the three districts of [[Sanyi|Sam Yup]]—each subgroup speaking a distinct dialect of [[Yue Chinese|Cantonese]]. In the U.S., people from Sze Yup generally worked as laborers; Chung Shan people specialized in agriculture; and Sam Yup people worked as entrepreneurs.<ref>{{cite book|title=Making of the American West: People and Perspectives|editor1-first=Peter|editor1-last=Mancall|editor2-first=Benjamin Heber|editor2-last=Johnson|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2007|chapter=Asians and Asian Americans in the West|first=Lisa|last=Hsia|pages=161–187}}</ref>