The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was created specifically to paralyze the immigration of Chinese to the United States, because they were deemed unassimilable and seen as uncivilized, impure and dirty, creating an anti - Chinese Fervor (Aunt). This era fostered resentment toward the Chinese that further intensified, with the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 spreading to other Asian groups. However, this did not stop Chinese immigrants from entering the United States. The Chinese found loopholes in the law that allowed them to take their family members with them as “paper children.” The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco destroyed municipal records, catalyzing immigration from China allowing Chinese men to claim U.S. citizenship and bring their family from China (Takaki 8). The Adventures of Eddie Fung tells the story of a young man born in China and his immigration to the United States as a "paper child" in the 1930s. Its meaning is related to the contradiction developed by the United States which deems the Chinese unassimilable and presents Eddie who endures his difficulties but maintains his inner American spirit. The book portrays his life in Chinatown, Texas, and his U.S. military service during World War II, which allowed the Chinese to experience the preliminary steps of gaining acceptance in the United States (Takaki 14). Eddie's father first came to Canada in the early 1900s and then emigrated. in the United States illegally. He built his residence in Chinatown and eventually sent for his family after the San Francisco earthquake. Chinatown served as an ethnic enclave “where ancestral culture and values ​​are honored and practiced as a way of life and ethnic pride is reinvigorated” (Zhou-Gatewood 126). These enclaves allowed the Chinese to transition seamlessly into a façade of American life. Living in a p...... middle of paper ...... that Chinese and Asian Americans were unassimilable. Works Cited Fung, Eddie and Judy Yung. The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War. Seattle: University of Washington, 2007. Print.Takaki, Ronald T. “14 World War II.” A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993. Page no. Print.Takaki, Ronald T. "8 In Search of the Mountains of Gold." A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993. Page no. Print.Zhou, Min and James V. Gatewood. “4 Globalization and Contemporary Immigration in the United States.” Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. New York: New York UP, 2007. Page no. Print.Aunt, Helen. “Surrogate Slaves of the American Dreamers.” Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Page no. Press.