The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

Ngai, Mae

ISBN 10: 0393634167 / ISBN 13: 9780393634167

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

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Riassunto:

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, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. 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 people to the West and reshaped the nineteenth-century world. Drawing on ten years of research across five continents, prize-winning historian Mae Ngai narrates the story of the thousands of Chinese who left their homeland in pursuit of gold, and how they formed communities and organizations to help navigate their perilous new world. Out of their encounters with whites, and the emigrants’ assertion of autonomy and humanity, arose the pernicious western myth of the “coolie” laborer, a racist stereotype used to drive anti-Chinese sentiment.The Chinese Question

Informazioni sull'autore: Mae Ngai is Lung Family Professor Asian American Studies and a professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of the award-winning book Impossible Subjects and The Lucky Ones and lives in New York City and Accokeek, Maryland.

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Titolo: The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and ...
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
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