The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics - Tapa dura

Ngai, Mae

 
9780393634167: The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
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ISBN 10: 0393634167 ISBN 13: 9780393634167
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2021

Sinopsis

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 catalysed 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.

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Acerca del autor

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

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393634167
ISBN 13 
9780393634167
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
464
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