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China's Gold Rush Migrants

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The Effect of the Discovery of Gold on the Chinese Economy

Gold mining is a distinct stream within a broader trend of outward migration that is enabled, you know, partly by the stagnation of the chinese economy. The migrants that go to california and australia are the primarily cant these migrants. There is one particular region in incanto and gandon province called a seand mandarins say, yapin an cantones. It's not a very spectacular place at al there's nothing particularly special about it. But this is a familiar story in a lot of chinese history. W have a sort of county or village where people can't survive as farmers so they just kind of go out and find a market niche. Could be in

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