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The chinese question : the gold rushes and global politics /

"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...

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Hlavní autor: Ngai, Mae M. (Autor)
Médium: Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Vydání:First edition.
Témata:
Chinese diaspora.
Chinese > Foreign countries > History > 19th century.
Gold mines and mining > Social aspects.
Gold mines and mining > Australia > History > 19th century.
Gold mines and mining > California > History > 19th century.
Gold mines and mining > South Africa > History > 19th century.
Race discrimination > History > 19th century.
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Obsah:
  • 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
  • Yellow, gold, and white
  • Exclusion and the open door
  • Becoming Chinese, becoming China
  • Epilogue : The spectre of the yellow peril, redux.

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