Anti-Chinese violence in California includes a number of massacres, riots, expulsions and other violent actions that were directed at Chinese-American communities during the mid and late 19th century.

The Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 was a racial massacre targeting Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, California. Approximately 500 white and Hispanic Americans attacked, harassed, robbed, and murdered the ethnic Chinese residents of the old Chinatown neighborhood.

The San Francisco riot of 1877 was a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California.

In Oregon, mobs drove Chinese workers out of small towns and workplaces territory-wide in the Winter of 1885 and Summer of 1886.

The Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers took place on September 7, 1885, in Squak Valley, Washington Territory, when a group of men fired their guns into several tents where a group of Chinese hop pickers were sleeping. The gunfire resulted in the death of three Chinese men and the wounding of three others. The attackers were later identified and brought to trial, but all were acquitted.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.

The Scott Act (1888) was a United States law that prohibited U.S. resident Chinese laborers from returning to the United States.

The Geary Act was a United States law that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by adding onerous new requirements.

The Tacoma riot of 1885, also known as the 1885 Chinese expulsion from Tacoma, involved the forceful expulsion of the Chinese population from Tacoma, Washington Territory, on November 3, 1885.

The Seattle riot of 1886 occurred on February 6–9, 1886, in Seattle, Washington. The incident resulted in the removal of over 200 Chinese civilians from Seattle

The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the city of Rock Springs in Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the Chinese miners.

The Hells Canyon Massacre (also known as the Snake River Massacre) was a massacre where thirty-four Chinese goldminers were ambushed and murdered in May 1887.