Race, Postcards, and the Visual Politics of Chinese Indenture in South African Gold Mines.
This essay compares how three South African postcard publishers represented the arrival of the first indentured Chinese workers imported by the British Transvaal colony for the Witwatersrand mines following the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). Given the prevailing anti-Chinese sentiment, their arrival ga...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 424 - 437 |
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