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Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong . By Elizabeth Sinn . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2013. xviii, 454 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
Book Reviews--Asia Comparative/Transnational
The historical transpacific connections between the United States and China have attracted enormous public and scholarly attention since the late nineteenth century, especially since the 1980s when the rising Chinese economy started to transform the Pacific Rim. Elizabeth Sinn's Pacific Crossing deepens our understanding of the historical roots of such connections. Several historical studies of the topic, such as Madeline Hsu's Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000) focus on interactions between California and the Pearl River Delta in South China. Sinn gives us the first comprehensive examination of Hong Kong as an extreme linking point--an "in-between" place (p. 9), in her words--in the...