Get a Chinese name

Did you know that almost 10% of the Montana population was Chinese in 1870?  At that time, the Chinese in Montana were almost all men.  There were 500-1,000 Chinese miners in Virginia City alone.

Chinese gold miners in California, 1852. 
Photo from the California State Library.

Read about the Chinese in Montana, especially Virginia City, at:
http://www.montanakids.com/cool_stories/ghost_towns/chinese.htm 



University of Montana archaeologists have discovered Chinese artifacts in German Gulch, a 19th century mining area near Butte.  German Gulch was named for the German miners who discovered gold there in 1864.  By the 1870s, the Chinese were mining German Gulch. 
See archaeological finds in 3-D!
http://www.cas.umt.edu/germangulch 



The British Museum has information on Chinese writing.  Read the information on the Museum's web page and then try the Symbols Game.   Try at least three rounds.  Can you get four out of four right?
http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/writing/challenge/cha_set.html

Now, get a Chinese name for yourself at:
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
or
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/name/blname.htm