Shu Cheong works on the goldfields at Lambing Flat. Life is tough, and there are many white settlers who are anything but friendly. It is 1860, and the white miners' behaviour towards the Chinese is becoming more and more violent. Shu Cheong witnesses increasing hatred and brutality towards his people . . . But he also learns the value of true friendship.

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.

New Gold Mountain is a work of historical fiction set in the mid 1800s and is the third novel in the saga of an Australian Colonial family who run a million acre cattle property in New South Wales.When Caroline Warre discovers gold in a creek on the family property it starts off a huge gold rush that results in murder and mayhem between the whites, Chinese and Aborigines. Thousands of people arrived in Sydney to search for their fortune while explorers firmly believed there was an inland sea or at least a huge river running through the middle of the vast continent.The considerable amount of research that has been carried cuts a fine line between fact and fiction making this a satisfying read from start to finish.