of US citizens. Just over a third (30,456) of those immigrants gained entry via this means. As legislation in the US is seen to favour this point of entry. Furthermore, employment based preferences is seen to be the third largest. This means of entry accounts for 23% of the total. The H1-B visa is seen to be a main point of entry for Chinese immigrants with both India and China dominating this visa category over the last ten years. Unsurprisingly, Chinese immigrants entering the United States via the diversity lottery are low. This means of entry prioritises those entering into the US from countries with historically low number of immigrants. As such, China does not fall into this category. Statistics of the Chinese population in the United States (1840–2010) The table shows the ethnic Chinese population of the United States (including persons with mixed-ethnic origin). See also Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States History of Asian American immigration Chinese emigration Overseas Chinese Immigration to the United States Illegal immigration to the United States Racism in the United States History of the United States Chinese Canadian History of Chinese immigration to Canada Notes and references Further reading Introductions and general history Brownstone, David M. The Chinese-American Heritage (Facts on File, 1988), (Nachdruck) Cassel, Susan Lan. The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium, AltaMira Press, 2002, Lai, Him Mark, Becoming Chinese American. A History of Communities and Institutions: AltaMira Press, 2004, Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History (2016) excerpt McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America, San Francisco (Design Enterprises) 1979, Pfaelzer, Jean. Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans. (Random House, 2007). Teitelbaum, Michael and Robert Asher, eds. (2004) Chinese Immigrants (Immigration to the United States). Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. The Chinese Experience in America, Indiana University Press, 1986, Wu, Dana Ying-Hui and Jeffrey Dao-Sheng Tung, Coming to America. The Chinese-American Experience, Brookfield, CT (The Millbrook Press) 1993, Specific topics Charlotte Brooks,. American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901-1949 (University of California Press, 2019) online review. Lucy M Cohen. Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without History: Louisiana State University Press, 1984, Erika Lee, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006, Matthew Frye Jacobson. (2000). Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home