Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World

by Anthony B. Chan

Paperback, 1988

Status

Available

Call number

AHC.CHA.GOM

Publication

New Star Books (1988)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

224 p.

ISBN

0919573010 / 9780919573017

Call number

AHC.CHA.GOM

Library's review

In the ninetheenth century thousands fled strife-torn China for Gold Mountain, the New World that seemed to promise prosperity and stability. Instead, Gold Mountain turned out to be a labyrinth of coal mines, railroads, logging camps and racism. Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World describes
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the conditions which resulted in the migration of Chinese to North America and the lifestyles and communities they developed here. Anthony B. Chan also describes the political currents swirling within Canada's Chinese community, a perspective skimmed over by earlier chroniclers of Chinese Canadian history. Chan's book is a loving and angry look at his own community, and an important contribution to Canada's ethnic history.'

(Abstract from back page)
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Pages

224
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