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 ... Chinese miners tended to live in groups ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The construction of the Chinese ... during the gold mining period in the 1860s, and that his family's story reflects the history of the West Coast gold rush in ...

"The Chinese miners built 30 Chinatowns during the gold rush. This is the only one that still stands," said Brian Tom, director of the Chinese American Museum of Northern California. "The history ...

Travelling from Hong Kong, on the southern edge of China ... in Gold Mountain” became a commonly used phrase in Hong Kong. In the mid 19th century, the US welcomed immigrants; the gold rush ...

A collection of rare petitions from Chinese miners violently expelled from the Burrangong goldfields during the Lambing Flat ...

Employees and mining experts say the Chinese companies use mercury in their operations, used to separate gold from ore. Mercury is considered one of the top ten chemicals of major public health ...