The history of Chinese in Silicon Valley

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The History of Chinese In Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is an industrial park in the southern coasts of San Francisco Bay in California, United States of America, and Palo Alto is its intellectual center. It does not have a border and the government structure. Before rebranding it to Silicon Valley, it was initially called the “Valley of the Heart’s Delight.” It encompasses the southern bay area and northwestern Santa Clara county. This name resulted from the high concentration of computers and electronic firms that grew up in the region from the mid-20th century (Guzman and Stern 606). Due to the industrial revolution, Silicon Valley has shifted to research, computer products and software marketing, and development. However, this place is the home of high-tech companies such as CISCO system, Apple, IBM, Oracle, Intel, and HP. Silicon Valley is the valley that produces silicon chips. This valley is found in the USA, many miles away from China, which makes people wonder how did they come there in large numbers. The Chinese immigration into Silicon Valley started during the 1880s Silicon Rush. The first Chinese began to arrive in this region as early as the 1850s to provide backbreaking labor in the western frontier (Saxenian 188). They offered services such as building railroads and highways, mining, and fishing. Eventually, the Chinese were everywhere, from the north to the south. Since World War II, the Chinese were doing blue-collar jobs in Silicon Valley. As time goes by (between the 1940s and 1960s), they started doing the professional duties which were preserved for middle-class people in the region. Their contributions in the area made them emerge as the economic pillars of Asian society in Silicon Valley. In the early 1960s, the number of Chinese in the steadily increased.
The robust economic development that occurred between 1990 and 1995 attracted more Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. They migrated to the US in five waves. This immigration resulted in a high number of Chinese working in the high-tech industry all over Silicon Valley. The number of workforces from the Asian community kept on increasing, where the majority were the Chinese. According to the 1990 census data, 30% of the workers were from Asian countries,of which 10% were the Chinese. The Chinese immigrants who came to Silicon Valley during the tech-related wave in the 1950s were sponsored by high-tech companies such as IBM. In 1960, the defense industries required more workforce, which prompted the second wave of Chinese into Silicon Valley to work for this industry. Also, the third wave was a result of the immigration of graduate students from mainland China. These students moved to the US in 1970 because PRC became reluctant on the policies concerning studying in the US. The fourth wave to move to the Silicon Valley comprised the Chinese who were already in the US Mainland China, Taiwan, and other Chinese communities from the overseas. Finally, the fifty waves included the students from Mainland China who completed their graduate studies in the US and moved to Silicon Valley. This wave took place between 1990 and 2000. These graduate students came to Silicon Valley ...