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Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Chinese in Hawaii 1789 - 1939Description
Inscribed "Official Cachet of the Chinese Stamp Club of Hawaii with The Advertiser Stamp Club Sept 8, 1939
Historical records indicated that the earliest presence of Chinese in Hawaii dates back to the late 18th century: a few sailors in 1778 with Captain James Cook's journey, more in 1788 with John Meares, and some in 1789 with American trader Simon Metcalfe, who reached Maui from Macau.[2] Visiting the Sandwich Islands in 1794, Captain George Vancouver reported seeing one Chinese resident.[3]
Encouraged by King Kamehameha I, Hawaii exported sandalwood to China from 1792 to around 1843.[3] As a result, Chinese people dubbed the Hawaiian Islands "Tan Heung Shan" (Chinese: 檀香山), roughly "Fragrant Sandalwood Hills" in Cantonese.[4][5] Between 1852 and 1899, around 46,000 Chinese immigrated to Hawaii.[6] In 1900, the Chinese population in Hawaii was 25,767.[7] More of these migrants were from Fukien and spoke Fukienese rather than Cantonese. An American missionary observing Maui in 1856 found that the primarily Cantonese shopkeepers and Fukienese laborers communicated in the Hawaiian language.[8]
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