Hawaii celebrates a Chinese bicentennial.

From: Sunset | Date: February 1, 1989 | Copyright information

The Year of the Snake on the Chinese calendar dawns February 6 this year, and in Hawaii the festivities will be especially elaborate. This New Year heralds a yearlong schedule of special cultural events as Hawaii's Chinese community celebrates 200 years in the Islands.

Hawaii's earliest Chinese settlers were crewmen on a British trading ship. Among those who followed, a sugar cane planter set up a mill on Lanai in 1802, some traded sandalwood from 1810 to 1825, and m...

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