According to Yong Chen, Chinese immigrants could have gone to many other places, including Southeast Asia, and many of them did; however, a substantial number of them, especially those Pearl River Delta near today’s Hong Kong, eventually ended up going to California because:

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Of the economic hardships and famine that the Chinese emigrant communities encountered back home due to rising tax burdens, loss of lands, and an endless stream of natural disasters.

Of the over-population that the Chinese emigrant communities faced back home.

Of the longstanding trans-Pacific connections between American traders and missionaries and local Chinese traders and residents in the Pearl River Delta.

Of the arrival of Western imperialism, marked by the Opium Wars, and government corruption, marked by the Taiping Rebellion and Red Turban Rebellion, back home.