Originally from Guangdong, the man one newspaper called a "petty despot" had sailed to San Francisco on a Chinese junk just before the gold rush, when he was approximately 20 years old.

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 ...

Between the gold rush and the early 20th century ... also features detailed recreations of sites that served Chinese migrant ...

The California gold rush of 1849 had triggered ... in favor of heavy labor or service work. During the 1860s, at least one out of every six Chinese immigrants living in the United States worked ...

Victoria has made a bipartisan apology to the descendants of Chinese gold miners for the discrimination they suffered during the Gold Rush. Victoria imposed a crippling tax of 10 pounds on Chinese ...