Chinese immigrants first started coming to Hawaii independantly between the 1800-1850, planning to earn enough wages of their own to take back with them to China. From 1852-1898, there was wave of over 50,000 Chinese laborers ,mostly young able-bodied men, that came overseas to Hawaii. Some where shipped over to work as rice/sugar plantation workers, others came as merchants, craftmen, etc.

I am a descendant of one of these Chinese immigrants. Unfortunately, I do not know who my ancestors were nor how they lived. Many of the remaining facts about their lives went down with my elders to their graves when I was a baby. My family's history is very fuzzy and surrounded in secrecy. Though, I have heard stories about how my ancestors arrived to Hawaii as immigrants and what experiences they faced while living as immigrants from existing relatives. But I am not completely sure that they are entirely correct. So, I tried to put myself in the perspectives of my great ancestors and "recreate the life" that they may have experienced while living as immigrants in Hawaii by writing diaries through their point of view.