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Go Deeper: from Gam Saan to Chinese Beautiful

Discover how the first Chinese arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush. Learn more about Look Tin Eli's remarkable life as an early Chinese American and how the destruction of City birth records in the 1906 earthquake created a loophole that allowed many new Chinese immigrants to arrive as “Paper Sons.”

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