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Title: | Chinese Merchants on the Rand, c.1850-1910 |
Author: | Harris, Karen L. |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 33 |
Period: | November |
Pages: | 155-168 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Chinese commercial law Economics and Trade History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582479508671852 |
Abstract: | Over the past three centuries the number of Chinese in South Africa, in terms of the whole population, has always been negligible. Africa was the last, and possibly one of the least popular, of all the continents to which the Chinese emigrated. From fragmentary evidence it is apparent that there were only several hundred Chinese, mainly merchants or small-scale business operators, at the Cape during the first century and a half of European hegemony. This article examines the laws that were introduced to restrict the trading rights of the Chinese or even to prohibit their entrance into the country, in the case of the Cape Colony and the Transvaal. The Transvaal became particularly prolific in passing anti-Asian laws. The article also pays attention to the reactions of the Chinese community, especially their involvement in Gandhi's passive resistance movement in the first decade of the 20th century. Ref. |