China's Gold Rush Migrants
<p>Andrew Liu talks to Tom about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa, the racial stereotypes about them promoted by local politicians, and their role in the huge economic shifts of the late 19th century, as described in a new book by Mae Ngai, <em>The Chinese Question</em>.</p><p>Find further reading, and listen ad free, on the episode page: <a href="https://lrb.me/goldrushpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/goldrushpod</a></p><p>Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: <a href="https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-42/politics/lab-leak-theory-and-the-asiatic-form/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Find Andrew's piece in n+1 here.</a></p><p>Title music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Anthony Wilks</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Andrew Liu talks to Tom about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa, the racial stereotypes about them promoted by local politicians, and their role in the huge economic shifts of the late 19th century, as described in a new book by Mae Ngai, The Chinese Question.
Find further reading, and listen ad free, on the episode page: https://lrb.me/goldrushpod
Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b
Find Andrew's piece in n+1 here.
Title music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Anthony Wilks
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.