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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.
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