Abstract
Introduction The dawn of Chinese immigration to the United States came after the discovery of exploitable gold in 1848, at Sutter’s Mill in California. Drawn to the United States by the possibility of escaping the deteriorating economic standing and political restiveness in China, the Chinese had made their contact with San Francisco in thousands by 1854. Most of them sought to attain prosperity as gold prospectors but as time wore on the majority settled as tradesmen around the western mining fields whilst some sought recruitment as laborers on the transcontinental railway. At this time immigration was largely ...
