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050 00 DS732|b.N43 2021 
082 00 331.6/251009034|223 
100 1  Ngai, Mae M.,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Chinese question :|bthe gold rushes and global 
       politics /|cMae Ngai. 
246 30 Gold rushes and global politics 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW. W. Norton & Company,|c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    xx, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-418) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction : Yellow and gold -- Two gold mountains -- 
       Two gold mountains -- On the diggings -- Talking to white 
       people -- Bigler's gambit -- The limits of protection -- 
       Making white men's countries -- The roar of the sandlot --
       The yellow agony -- The Asiatic danger in the colonies -- 
       The richest spot on earth -- Coolies on the Rand -- The 
       price of gold -- The Asiatic danger in the colonies -- The
       Chinese diaspora in the West -- Exclusion and the open 
       door -- Becoming Chinese, becoming China -- Epilogue : The
       spectre of the yellow peril, redux. 
520    "How Chinese migration to the world's goldfields upended 
       global power and economics and forged modern conceptions 
       of race. 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 catalyzed a global battle over
       "the Chinese Question": Would the United States and the 
       British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration? This 
       distinguished history of the Chinese diaspora and global 
       capitalism chronicles how a feverish alchemy of race and 
       money brought Chinese to the West and reshaped the 
       nineteenth-century world, from Europe's subjugation of 
       China to the rise of the international gold standard and 
       the invention of racist, anti-Chinese stereotypes that 
       linger to this day. Drawing on ten years of research 
       across five continents, prize-winning historian Mae Ngai 
       argues that Chinese exclusion was not extraneous to the 
       emergent global economy but an integral part of it"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Chinese|zForeign countries|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Gold mines and mining|xSocial aspects. 
650  0 Gold mines and mining|zAustralia|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Gold mines and mining|zCalifornia|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Gold mines and mining|zSouth Africa|xHistory|y19th 
       century. 
650  0 Chinese diaspora. 
650  0 Race discrimination|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  7 Chinese diaspora.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01746779 
650  7 Chinese|xForeign countries.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00857186 
650  7 Gold mines and mining.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00944469 
650  7 Gold mines and mining|xSocial aspects.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00944493 
650  7 Race discrimination.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086465 
651  7 Australia.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204543 
651  7 California.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204928 
651  7 South Africa.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204616 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iebook version :|z9780393634174 
994    C0|bWHP 
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