In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West (Asian American Experience)
University of Illinois Press, 2011. Hardcover. Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West, In Pursuit of Gold brings to life in rich detail the world of turn-of-the-century mining towns in the Northwest. Sue Fawn Chung meticulously recreates the lives of Chinese immigrants, miners, merchants, and others who populated these towns and interacted amicably with their white and Native American neighbors, defying the common perception of nineteenth-century Chinese communities as insular enclaves subject to increasing prejudice and violence. Good+ / Very Good. Item #9677
Uncommon hardcover edition. Octavo. 258 pp. Maroon cloth. From private collection. Book appears read with slight spine slant. Penciled check marks and marginalia erased from several pages. All said, a solid reading and reference copy of the hardcover edition.
Price: $55.00