• the first Chinese migrant to Madagascar arrived in 1862, starting a community that would become Africa's third-largest Chinese population?

Facts on topics related to Chinese people in Madagascar

Overseas Chinese

• Louis XIV of France employed a native Chinese librarian, Arcadio Huang, to organize the royal library's collection of Chinese books?
• the 1806 settlement of Chinese in Trinidad was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean, preceding the importation of Chinese-indentured labour by over 40 years?
• the 1870 poem "The Heathen Chinee," written by Bret Harte as a satire of racial prejudice, was publicly embraced as a mockery of Chinese immigrants, and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. more than any other work at the time?
• the first Chinese migrant to Madagascar arrived in 1862, starting a community that would become Africa's third-largest Chinese population?

Chinese American

• Chinese American sculptor Hai Ying Wu's work includes the Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial in Seattle and the Auto-Lite Strike Memorial in Toledo, Ohio?
• Congregation Beth Israel, the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
• John L. Fugh was the first Chinese American to be Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army?
• You Chung Hong, the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California, helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway?