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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
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