HIUS 188 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-9: Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Extreme Weather, Chinese Educational Mission

• School: UCSD
• Department: History of the United States
• Course: HIUS 188
• Professor: Rachel Klein

Document Summary

Hius 188 textbook notes the chinese in america, chapters 5-9. Landslides, mudslides: extreme weather and dehydration in the desert. Sunrise to sunset, 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week: chinese had to pay for their own board, which meant that they brought home less than white workers, overseers treated chinese workers like slaves, and would whip them. Irish taunted them and threw dirt, chinese ignored. California like they said they would: only kept a few hundred chinese to be maintenance workers, living along the track. Chapter 6: life on the western frontier: one week"s pay in america = several months of wages in china. Farmers liked chinese labor because it was cheap, and the chinese would cook for themselves and sleep in their own tents: worked in san joaqin river delta. For the first time, some chinese were working for chinese. Second-best sold to parlor houses, where they entertained men.