CHINESE AMERICANS PAST & PRESENT: A Collection of Chinese American Readings & Learning Activities

San Francisco, CA: Association of Chinese Teachers Chinese American Heritage Project, 1977. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Illustrated with Line Drawings. Ex-Lib. Text/NEW & Bright. 1977 publication, issued w/o ISBN number. Library stamp to front cover verso. Stapled, illustrated softcover/Fine. Study funded by the US Dept of Health, Education & Welfare. Juvenile literature. Socio-economic background of early Chinese-Americans. 1848 surface gold was found in CA gold --- when closer South American labor costs were less available and at the eve of Civil War's end of African-American slavery. So leading to massive import of indentured, cheap Chinese labor (mostly poverty stricken farmers of Southern China). So numerous that in Chinese history is described as "the 2nd Opium War" for the sake of building railroads, new farms, and for working surface mines abandoned by white gold miners while penalized w/a special CA miner's tax. So many lives lost the Ch'ing Emperor sent "bone collectors" to bring back the dead to rest on Chinese soil. 76 pgs w/line drawings; narratives followed by class activities & review questions w/answers to rear. Elucidating chapter on human-economic cost exacted by America's opening of California and early Chinese-Americans for readers of all ages.