Mon. September 26, 2022
Professor Mae Ngai’s Book on Cundhill Shortlist
“The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics,” a book written by Professor Mae Ngai, is on Cundhill’s 2022 shortlist.
The Chinese Question chronicles how a feverish alchemy of race and money brought Chinese to the West and reshaped the nineteenth-century world ― from Europe’s subjugation of China to the rise of the international gold standard and the invention of racist, anti-Chinese stereotypes that linger to this day.
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