Abstract: Influenced by the gold-rush in 1848, many people from South China began to emigrate to the USA. Before the Second World War, persecuted for a long time by Chinese Exclusion Act, the Chinese immigrants lived a hard life in the different culture. And education became an important means to continuing Chinese traditional culture, and placing their national feelings. By the main contents of cultural study accompanied with language study, and by the main form of family education and community education, the traditional education has played a role of tying the Overseas Chinese with their motherland, which strengthens national consciousness of the young generation and forms strong national culture identity.

Key words: Chinese Americans, family education, schools of Chinese language, cultural identity