article_snippet: Struggle: Hong Yen Chang, from  Guangdong Province, China, travelled to the U.S. in 1872 when he was 12 years old.
article_snippet: Hong Yen Chang, from Xiangshan, Guangdong Province, was chosen to travel to the U.S. in 1872 when he was 12 years old, as part of a Chinese Educational Mission.
article_snippet: California with other immigrants following the Gold Rush of the . mid-1800s.