Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese immigrants in the American West, In Pursuit of Gold brings to life the world of turn-of-the-century mining towns in the Northwest. Sue Fawn Chung meticulously recreates the lives of Chinese immigrants, miners, merchants, and others who populated these towns and interacted amicably with their white and Native American neighbors, defying the common perception of nineteenth-century Chinese communities as insular enclaves subject to increasing prejudice and violence. Peppered with fascinating details about these communities from the intricacies of Chinese gambling games to the techniques of hydraulic mining, In Pursuit of Gold draws on a wealth of historical materials, including immigration records, census manuscripts, legal documents, newspapers, memoirs, and manuscript collections.
Titel
In Pursuit of Gold
Untertitel
Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West
Autor
EAN
9780252093340
ISBN
978-0-252-09334-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
01.08.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
3.22 MB
Anzahl Seiten
296
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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