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Making use of extensive research in archives around the world, Pacific Crossing charts the rise of Chinese Gold Mountain firms engaged in all kinds of transpacific trade, especially the lucrative export of prepared opium and other luxury goods. Challenging the traditional view that the migration was primarily a "coolie trade," Elizabeth Sinn uncovers leadership and agency among the many Chinese who made the crossing. In presenting Hong Kong as an "in-between place" of repeated journeys and continuous movement, Sinn also offers a fresh view of the British colony and a new paradigm for migration studies.
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"The definitive statement about Hong Kong’s roots as the catalyst for the rise of a transpacific world. Sinn forces us to rethink how migration connected China and North America, examining the movement of not only people but goods in shaping how 'Gold Mountain' fueled the rise of Hong Kong, and how migrating Chinese and the companies they created built a corridor across the Pacific." — Henry Yu, author of Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
"Elizabeth Sinn's intricately researched study wastes no time getting to the main point. Hong Kong had room for all its people to make a living. As a British colony it 'provided enough flexibility and openness for people of different backgrounds to exert their entrepreneurial vitality and not be ashamed of growing rich.' When news of the California gold rush 'an ocean away' reached Hong Kong, it was 'a call for action.' For the discerning reader, Dr Sinn's book is, likewise, a call for action: Read it!" — Philip A. Kuhn, author of Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times
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