By 1900, about 100,000 immigrants living in the united states were from

"China "

Chinese immigration in the United States is a group of overseas Chinese who are part of the Asian-American community. Within this community, the American term of Chinese origin often in a broad sense includes not only immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and their descendants, but also immigrants from overseas and descendants of Chinese who migrated to China. United States from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, the Philippines, among other countries. The port of San Francisco became the main gateway to Chinese immigrants from 1850 to 1900.