HuAnZhao trujillo is 5 years old, he left his hometown Mexico on a visit to his father's home in southern China. His 35 years old, when he came back.
High on holiday, and his parents, brothers and two sisters in guangdong province, Mexico xenophobia psychological push down the volume small, relatively prosperous China minority economic turmoil "the great depression", is for the purpose of broke out. Authorities support mob rounding off Chinese citizens, pressure, they sell their enterprise, and forced many across the border to enter the United States.
Unable to return to his own house, in the southern border city tower palmer hill to pull of hotels and restaurants, Chius stay at China, and start a new life.
Zhao's father found a job in a relative to the bakery and his children begin to study Chinese. But, their life was soon earth-shaking changes, by the Japanese invasion of China, with the second world war, then from the civil war's victory, lead to the communist forces religious persecution. In 1941, the family fled to macau, then is the Portuguese colony.
They have never stopped, Mexico's dream, and HuAnZhao trujillo in November 1960 to return to. When he comes back, his pregnant wife and four children, and other 300 China, Mexican President adolf lopez,, matteo, efforts to improve Mexico, pay for their travel expenses, and ordered they will in the law allows living in Mexico's international image. They finally get Mexico citizenship.
Article 21 the Chinese, Mexico and their offspring to celebrate the first anniversary on Saturday, they return. Gathered in Mexico City a Chinese restaurant, they share their life in China at the end of the emotional memory and praise, lopez matteo.
Adrian lai ruiz remembered his father, ramon MeiZuo lai, who was born in the Pacific coast of tin the LuoYaZhou campaign tirelessly for repatriation, and live in Macao.
"He transfer to my Spanish, he is very eager to return to Mexico, our homes," lai said, his voice breaking.
For many people, the memory of their status, China's Mexican brought reflection. This is a group of deeply Mexico has also scarred persecute his compatriots, still face racial prejudice, although more and more accepted.
"I think: 'my children need to know this period of history. They need to know where we came from, and they need to know how much hard work, it has been taken as we come here," said "according to the youngest son, ignacio · ZhaoChen, a 46-year-old lawyer.
ChenZhao began a Facebook page sent back, he found that in his father's photo album to share photos, and collect other Chinese Mexican story brought back, lopez matteo. So far, more than 260 people attended his web page, share pictures, tell the family story.
As living, to Mexico, Spain and India African woman who is married and has four children, said he struggled with his identity, in the process of growing up the because bullying, drilling several times fight, because call each other names.
When a group of elders invited him in Mexico City small Chinatown a restaurant for lunch, he is a young bachelor. Three young women on the table, someone asked he said he wanted to get married.
"I think," talk about these a handsome boy??????? "He recalled." This is the first time, I feel Mexico and thought, "I do not belong to this."
A large number of China in the 19th century, drawing work in railway construction and cotton began arriving in northern Mexico. On behalf of the country from the United States, it has passed the Chinese exclusion act ", the 1882 act forbidding the Chinese immigrants refuge.
But that moment, they started to arrive, they faced racism, this is in 1910 to 1917 Mexican revolution and its consequences intensifies, when the country is trying to set up a national identity, celebrate the India and mixture of Spanish culture.
Mexican and Chinese man married women were regarded as a traitor, and in some cases, the family break off the relationship. The great depression, a large number of impoverished people begin to Mexico to return, from the financial success of the Chinese people's discontent growth.
"Even if there is a small number of Chinese people, their economic strength and their positions in the labor force, and make their threat, said:" Freddie gonzalez, a doctoral candidate at Yale university history, is the study of the 20th century Chinese immigrants to Mexico.
In the northern border line Nora state, formed the Chinese alliance and hundreds of thousands of Chinese took and the borders of the United States, and forced to travel. Because China's Chinese exclusion act, they immediately by the United States immigration officials sent to China.
In 1930, Mexico has 18000 Chinese citizens and has Chinese descent mexicans. By 1940, only 4800, "gonzalez said.




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