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Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong , written by Elizabeth Sinn

Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong , written by... (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013). xviii + 454 pp. $45 (cloth). Pacific history is a recently rediscovered field that has contributed much to existing understanding of the connections between Asia, Australasia and the Americas, decentering national histories in favor of accounts that illustrate regional and bottom-up connections and networks. Scientists, anthropologists and historians have long debated the directional flow of the earliest Pacific crossings. However, it was the mid-19 th Century crossing of Chinese migrants from Asia to the Americas in unprecedented numbers that was the most important for the modern era. In this book, Elizabeth Sinn argues that south Chinese migrants from the Pearl River Delta by way of Hong Kong shaped the California economy, and vice versa, during and in the years following the California Gold Rush. Drawing on the work of Wang Gungwu and Philip Kuhn, several of Sinn’s chapters show how Chinese migrants extended the “corridor” between workplace and home. The first chapter examines Hong Kong’s early years after the British made it a free port following the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing. During these years, Hong Kong served as a transshipment center in the Nam Pak trade, which facilitated the movements of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong , written by Elizabeth Sinn

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Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 22 (2): 169 – Jul 24, 2015
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Brill
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© 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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1058-3947
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1876-5610
DOI
10.1163/18765610-02202006
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(Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013). xviii + 454 pp. $45 (cloth). Pacific history is a recently rediscovered field that has contributed much to existing understanding of the connections between Asia, Australasia and the Americas, decentering national histories in favor of accounts that illustrate regional and bottom-up connections and networks. Scientists, anthropologists and historians have long debated the directional flow of the earliest Pacific crossings. However, it was the mid-19 th Century crossing of Chinese migrants from Asia to the Americas in unprecedented numbers that was the most important for the modern era. In this book, Elizabeth Sinn argues that south Chinese migrants from the Pearl River Delta by way of Hong Kong shaped the California economy, and vice versa, during and in the years following the California Gold Rush. Drawing on the work of Wang Gungwu and Philip Kuhn, several of Sinn’s chapters show how Chinese migrants extended the “corridor” between workplace and home. The first chapter examines Hong Kong’s early years after the British made it a free port following the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing. During these years, Hong Kong served as a transshipment center in the Nam Pak trade, which facilitated the movements of

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Published: Jul 24, 2015

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