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Escape to Gold Mountain

a Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
Apr 04, 2017mammothhawk229e rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
It glossed over ethnocentric protectionist China on lack of intelligence Europe was changing both economics & military. It relied on lumped on heathen stereotypes reports. Book never mentioned Taiping Rebellion by failed bureaucrat applicant that discovered Christianity that killed & displaced millions. That & secondary revolts prevented any chance Manchu Empire of industrialization as it rebuild infrastructure. No mention on how many Chinese arrived & stayed in Canada & United states or if population shrank from 1907-1947 in any graph. What maps of disappeared Chinatowns in North America? Characters never mentioned any news from the motherland from Boxer rebellion, Chinese Republic, warlordism, Chinese civil war from 1922-1937 & 1945-1949 that killed millions. Ditto People Republic of China & messy consolidation especially Cultural Revolution. Only focused on Japanese invading China. Focused too much on one family & not about their neighbors in the villages. Finally, no mention of low-level hostility of recent professional white collar Hong Kong buying homes & cars in cash in late 1980s to today. Good, but incomplete insular picture.