Article: The Chinese Six Companies: A Short, General Historical Resume of its Origin, Function, and Importance in the Life of the California Chinese

Chinese Six Companies

Article: The Chinese Six Companies: A Short, General Historical Resume of its Origin, Function, and Importance in the Life of the California Chinese

1942

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This medium length profile, published in 1942 by William Hoy, the Research Editor for the California Chinese Historical Society, provides an account of the beginning of Chinese immigration to Western North America and the creation of the Chinese Six Companies, an organization of the six most powerful Chinese companies in California. The author provides a perspective on how the companies came together to form the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, which later became the Chinese Six Companies.

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