Soran Kurdi Dr. Becky Gesteland MENG 6240 April 28th 2015 Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance: Challenging the Constructed Definitions of Chineseness The United States has experienced influxes of immigrants throughout its history. The great wave of immigrants started at the second half of the nineteenth-century. Among these were Chinese immigrants. From the 1840s to 1882, “more than 100,000 Chinese immigrants immigrated to the American west” (energyofanation.org). First, they started working in the