China's embassy in the resource-rich Democratic Republic of Congo has been warning Chinese citizens and firms not to venture ...
Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton ... and pulled forward by rumors of the Gum Sham, the Mountain of Gold, that awaited them across the ocean.
"We have proved their value as laborers & everybody is trying Chinese & now we can't get them," Crocker wrote. His brother Charles, the project's contractor, raised the workers' monthly wages four ...