The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

Mae Ngai

416 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the goldfields of California, Australia, and South Africa cat...

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