When the gold ran out, the Siyi miners did not go home. They picked up hoes instead of picks — and transformed Australian agriculture. By 1900, Chinese market gardeners from five counties in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta — the Five Counties, or Wuyi (五邑, Wǔyì) — supplied an estimated 75 to 80 percent of Sydney's…
New Gold Mountain: Wuyi Pioneers in Australia 1850-1901
Your ancestors might have talked about going to Gold Mountain (金山 Jīnshān). But which one?
The Old Gold Mountain (旧金山 Jiù Jīnshān) was California—San Francisco, the gold rush that began in 1848 and drew thousands from Guangdong's Wuyi (五邑) region to seek their fortune.
But there was…