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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

byMae Ngai

How Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race. The Chinese Question combines archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of history, The Chinese Question explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the gold rushes, chinese migration, and global politics: the gold rushes and global politics emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

464

ISBN

9780393634167