Remembering History: The Chinese in San Francisco remained so attached to their homeland that for years, "death ships" laden with Chinese corpses, bones, and ashes returned their remains to their native soil. In 1858 the ship Asia sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong, bearing the embalmed bodies of 321 Chinese..

The Chinese in San Francisco remained so attached to their homeland that for years, "death ships" laden with Chinese corpses, bones, and ashes returned their remains to their native soil. In 1858 the ship Asia sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong, bearing the embalmed bodies of 321 Chinese..

The Chinese in San Francisco remained so attached to their homeland that for years, "death ships" laden with Chinese corpses, bones, and ashes returned their remains to their native soil. In 1858 the ship Asia sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong, bearing the embalmed bodies of 321 Chinese..