Golden Mountain of Lead: The Chinese Experience in California

Abstract

It is difficult to over-estimate the role of the Chinese in California his tory. Chinese labor played a major part in the development of mining, railroads, large-scale agriculture, and urban industry. Racial hostility toward Chinese profoundly effected social class structure, ethical values, and the political environment of nineteenth-century California. The anti-Oriental prejudices first applied to the Chinese were easily passed on to the Japanese and Filipinos. Philip Choy provides a general survey of the role played by Chinese in California history.

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