The term “coolie” is commonly associated with Chinese Americans depicted as an involuntary slave labor force, forced cheap ...

1856 - 1874 China’s loss of control over its own seaports (Treaty Ports) including British regulation of Chinese emigration -- is the necessary condition for the beginning of the Chinese Coolie ...

A few thousands of Coolies and Chinese thrown into the country would soon cause industry to press upon the means of subsistence, and thus force the idle and dissolute portion of the population to ...

Narrator The second part of the ANCESTORS IN THE AMERICAS series unfolds with the arrival of Chinese on the West Coast during the Gold Rush, not as coolies laboring in the bleak outposts of the ...

She does not even have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of “squeeze” have slowly taken over all the work aboard—first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor ...

Coolie is an epic 19th-century tale of romance that crosses continents. It is the story of Chulin, (Louise Wong – Wang Tan Ni), a poor orphaned Chinese girl who leaves her home in southern China and ...