中国问题：淘金热与全球政治[有声读物]

1848年至1899年间，从地球上开采的黄金比前3000年开采的还要多，给个人和国家带来了数不清的财富。但加利福尼亚、澳大利亚和南非金矿区的华人和白人定居者之间的摩擦引发了一场关于“中国问题”的全球战争：美国和大英帝国会禁止中国移民吗？这部中国侨民和全球资本主义的历史记录了狂热的种族和金钱炼金术如何将中国人带到西方，并重塑了19世纪的世界。获奖历史学家梅恩盖（Mae Ngai）讲述了数千名中国人为了追求黄金而离开祖国的故事，以及他们如何组建社区和组织，帮助他们在危险的新世界中航行。由于他们与白人的接触，以及移民对自治和人性的主张，产生了西方关于“苦力”劳工的恶毒神话，这是一种种族主义刻板印象，被用来煽动反华情绪。
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics [Audiobook]
Between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the goldfields of California, Australia, and South Africa catalyzed a global battle over “the Chinese Question”: Would the United States and the British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration? This history of the Chinese diaspora and global capitalism chronicles how a feverish alchemy of race and money brought Chinese people to the West and reshaped the 19th-century world. Prize-winning historian Mae Ngai narrates the story of the thousands of Chinese who left their homeland in pursuit of gold, and how they formed communities and organizations to help navigate their perilous new world. Out of their encounters with whites, and the emigrants’ assertion of autonomy and humanity, arose the pernicious western myth of the “coolie” laborer, a racist stereotype used to drive anti-Chinese sentiment.

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