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Chinese Gold: The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region

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This GREAT BOOK is must for people interested in California, American and Asian/American history . Sandy Lydon has done extensive research on the Chinese in the Monterey Bay area in the late 1800's. This book documents a very important era in Chinese American history. Truly enlightening, interesting and informative.

Despite the profound ignorance of dim bulbs like the not so wizened guy, this is indeed a fine work of scholarship. Sandy Lydon, "the History Dude" is a master historian and any one of his books from Capitola Press has contributed more to America's documented heritage than most of us ever might hope to do in a book. So all you insomniacs out there who want to be rewarded by learning some fascinating California history, pick up a copy of Chinese Gold or any of Sandy's fine books like The Japanese in the Monterey Bay Region: A Brief History. For the numb skulls who prefer sleeping their lives away, please don't read any of his books and you can be even more ignorant than you already are.

This GREAT BOOK is must for people interested in California, American and Asian/American history . Sandy Lydon has done extensive research on the Chinese in the Monterey Bay area in the late 1800's. This book documents a very important era in Chinese American history. Truly enlightening, interesting and informative.

What a fascinating book on the history and role of the Chinese in Monterey Bay at the end of the nineteenth century. Why isn't more about this community taught in the public schools in this area?! An interesting and extremely thorough book. I particularly liked all the maps, both current and historical.