Tony Platt of Sac State reviews a new book by historian Jean Pfaelzer on the persecution of Chinese-Americans in 19th-century California. Between 1840 and 1900, more than 2 million Chinese laborers left their homeland to work in plantations and... ...full story at Granite Studio
from Granite Studio on Wed, Jun 06 2007
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