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New York City English and second generation Chinese Americans AMY WING-MEI WONG Chinese Americans are using New York City English to negotiate identities Chinese Americans in the United Americans (followed by San Francisco, with States and in New York City 4.5 percent) (Shinagawa Kim, 2008). The population of Chinese immigrants in Chinese Americans are the earliest Asian immi- NYC prior to the late nineteenth century trailed grants to the U.S. The first wave of Chinese behind major Western cities. It only began to immigrants came to the U.S. as early as the increase significantly after the 1880s (see Table 1840s. Many of them were peasants from the 1) when anti-Chinese movements in the West- Guangdong Province in Southern China who ern cities compelled many Chinese immigrants moved to California as railroad workers. The to move to Eastern areas such as NYC. Similar influx of Chinese immigrants during the 1860s to other early Chinese communities in the West and 1870s was severely restricted for about Coast, the pre-1950s Chinese community in sixty years as a result of the growing anti-Chi- NYC was composed predominantly of middle- nese movements in California, which culmi- age, single, male sojourners as a result of the nated in the passing of the Chinese Exclusion