In August 1852, the Alta California exposed a brewing ... "petty despot" had sailed to San Francisco on a Chinese junk just before the gold rush, when he was approximately 20 years old.

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction ... The law led many Chinese mining immigrants to head south to San Francisco where they established America ...

Despite the hardship, San Francisco was an attractive destination for Chinese men hoping to make their fortunes abroad. The allure stemmed from the discovery of gold in California in 1848.

Thousands of people from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Oregon, Mexico, Chile, Peru and China headed for California ... the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found ...

MARYSVILLE – A historic Chinese parade attracts thousands of visitors to Marysville, an area that has a rich history surrounding Chinese immigrants, each year. "The Chinese miners built 30 ...

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Stories about Chinese miners during Australia’s famous gold rush of the 1850s are often told from a Western perspective. The SBS drama series New Gold Mountain flips the script by shining a ...