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TIL that in mid-19th-century New York, marriages between Chinese men and Irish women were incredibly common. The Irish immigrant community had a massive surplus of women (two for every man), while the Chinese community was overwhelmingly male, leading to frequent unions between the two groups.
Read about this phenomenon when Iris Chang first published "Chinese in America", the same book this article cited. I'm speculating, and I'd have to do some research on this, but the Irish teamsters a…
r/AsianMasculinitycomment4/7/2026
TIL that in mid-19th-century New York, marriages between Chinese men and Irish women were incredibly common. The Irish immigrant community had a massive surplus of women (two for every man), while the Chinese community was overwhelmingly male, leading to frequent unions between the two groups.
Found an old article from 2005 after she passed. The circumstances were all too eerie given how young she was at the time of her death. I met her the summer before she passed away and got her to autog…
r/AsianMasculinitycomment4/8/2026