Podcasts about Gold Mountain

In this episode we're joined by music-biz legend Danny Goldberg to discuss his dealings with Led Zeppelin and Kurt Cobain — and the school days he spent with the great Gil Scott-Heron. Danny takes us back to his short-lived stint at Berkeley and his first port of call on returning to his native New York: clerking at trade bible Billboard, a job that led to the publication of his report on 1969's Woodstock festival. From there we jump to the three years our guest spent working for Led Zep — first as their press agent, then as V-P of their label Swan Song. We revisit the band's conquest and domination of '70s America and hear hair-raising tales of Page, Plant, Bonzo, Peter Grant and Richard Cole... as well as Danny's 1976 exit from the band's dark vortex. The story of how Nirvana came to be managed by Danny's company Gold Mountain prompts thoughts on Kurt Cobain and mention of the 2019 memoir (Serving the Servant) our guest wrote about him. Danny brings his management and record-label story up to date by previewing the new album by his clients the Waterboys. The week's new audio interview takes us back to the '60s and to Danny's reminiscences of the young Gil Scott-Heron, who can be heard talking in 1978 to Mark "Radio Pete" Bliesener. The second of two clips — about Richard Nixon — brings us to the shocking present moment of Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's unprecedented assault on American democracy. After a tribute to the departed Marianne Faithfull — heard talking about the brilliant Broken English album in a short audio clip from 2014 — Jasper quotes from a 2023 Simon Reynolds article about A.I. and music journalism. Pieces discussed: Woodstock: Peace Mecca, Led Zeppelin: Under The Hood – A Backstage Chronicle of the Historic 1975 Tour, Led Zeppelin: Danny Goldberg's Hideaway, Danny Goldberg: Serving the Servant – Remembering Kurt Cobain (Ecco), Gil Scott-Heron audio (1978), Growing Up With Gil Scott-Heron: In Loving Memory, Marianne Faithfull audio (2014) and I'm a Noted Music Critic. Can A.I. Do My Job?.

Gold Mountain Ltd (ASX: GMN) executive director David Evans sits with Jonathan Jackson in the Proactive studio to discuss initial findings from its Down Under REE Project in Brazil. The company has received results from 260 stream sediment samples and conducted 85 kilometres of detailed geophysical radiometric surveys. Assays indicate widespread anomalies across an 80 square kilometre area and suggest the potential for ultra-high-grade hard rock monazite-hosted REE-niobium-uranium-scandium mineralisation. Extensive REE anomalous catchments have been identified, forming highly anomalous areas up to 8 kilometres in length. Radiometric surveys revealed thorium anomalies up to 1,600 metres wide. In total, 44 spectrometer radiometric traverse lines were conducted, inferring potential areas of significant mineralisation from the geochemical results and radiometric traversing. The comparison of these radiometric values with those in known REE mineralised areas shows similar results within GMN tenements. An auger drill rig has been ordered, with expected delivery in July 2024, to commence drilling in five identified target areas. Follow-up exploration will include further drilling, additional spectrometer traverses and further sediment sampling to confirm REE content. Results from the ongoing laboratory analysis are expected by the end of July. The exploration program also extends to the Ronaldinho Project, where similar techniques are being employed. #ProactiveInvestors #GoldMountainLtd #ASX #REEExploration, #MiningUpdates, #RareEarths, #GeophysicalSurvey, #Mineralisation, #StreamSedimentSampling, #RadiometricSurvey, #AugerDrilling, #ThoriumAnomalies, #Monazite, #GeochemicalResults, #RadiometricTraversing, #DownUnderProject, #RonaldinhoProject, #HighGradeMineralisation, #ExplorationTargets, #MiningNews, #ASXAnnouncements, #REEAssays #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

Silver Range Resources CEO Mike Power joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share encouraging exploration results from short exploration programs conducted at the Cambridge Property in Lyon County and the Sniper Property in Esmeralda County, Nevada. At the Cambridge Property, Power reported that reconnaissance underground investigations revealed that exposed stopes in the area of recent excavator trenching were partially backfilled by spoil during excavation. It appears that the upper portions of the mine might be accessible with limited underground rehabilitation. Additionally, mineralization was discovered in a subordinate footwall vein splay, oblique to the main Cambridge Vein. Grab samples from a 15 cm exposure of this vein returned impressive results of 7.61 g/t Au and 52.1 g/t Au. Meanwhile, at the Sniper Property, a short Packsack diamond drill hole in the north wall of a small pit returned 2.30 meters at 2.10 g/t Au and 55.3 g/t Ag from the surface, with mineralization open at depth. The Sniper Property is located on the north flank of Gold Mountain. The area is characterized by ribbon-banded quartz veins containing pyrite, galena, tetrahedrite, and secondary chrysocolla and wulfenite, present in the carapace of a Jurassic intrusion just below the contact with overlying Precambrian Wyman formation metasediments. Initial sampling by Silver Range at the Sniper Property showed high gold and silver grades. Out of 14 samples, seven returned assays greater than 5 g/t Au, and five samples returned assays greater than 20 g/t Au, with a peak value of 121 g/t Au. Silver assays ranged from 0.2 to 1,375 g/t Ag, with three samples assaying greater than 100 g/t Ag. The property appears to have been initially explored with small adits and shafts before the 1980s. Between 1978 and 1983, these were partially covered or obliterated by bulldozer during exploration and high-grading. The Sniper Property is one of many small mines and prospects in the Tokop Mining District, which have produced sporadically or intermittently since 1866. These exploration results underscore the potential for significant mineralization at both the Cambridge and Sniper properties, enhancing Silver Range Resources' prospects for future development and production. #proactiveinvestors #silverrangeresourcesltd #tsxv #sng #mining #gold #MiningExploration #GoldMining #SilverMining #CambridgeProperty #SniperProperty #LyonCounty #EsmeraldaCounty #NevadaMining #GoldDiscovery #MineralExploration #HighGradeGold #UndergroundWorkings #MiningProjects #CapitalRaising #GoldQuartz #Geochemistry #MiningInvestment #GoldNuggets #EconomicMinerals #ResourceDevelopment #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

In this week's podcast, we dive into the chaos leading up to Friday and the much-anticipated release of the Pink Motel Video. The weekend's adventures took us through Gold Mountain, the Boneyard, and we finished the trip with a ride on John Bull with 17 jeeps. Despite the whirlwind of activities, it was exactly what I needed. Stay Golden Y'all! Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/xeJVKNCNANM Pink Motel Video: https://youtu.be/f29fjB5kPms?si=Vq7xBHp1FidyfJNR --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rtmpod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rtmpod/support

Joining Proactive's Jonathan Jackson in the studio is Gold Mountain Executive Director David Evans who explains the mineral exploration company's projects in Brazil and Papua New Guinea (PNG). These projects target a spectrum of metals including rare earth elements (REE), lithium, nickel, copper, and gold. Evans explains that diversification remains central to Gold Mountain's strategy, highlighting the company's 75% stake in various licenses across the eastern Brazilian lithium belt, notably in Salinas, Minas Gerais. This region is ripe for exploration of REE, copper, and lithium. In Brazil, recent findings have indicated rocks with potential for REE, spearheading the exploration initiatives. Evans delves into the company's activities in the area, including systematic exploration and analysis to assess the economic viability of these resources. Turning to PNG, the focus is on the Wabag Project, spanning around 950 km² within the Papuan Mobile belt, known for its copper-gold prospects. Gold Mountain has sought an exploration license for the Green River area, aiming to probe high-grade copper-gold and lead-zinc occurrences, alongside potential porphyry-style mineralisation. #proactiveinvestors #asx #GoldMountain #goldexploration #gold #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

fWotD Episode 2498: KCPQ Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of the featured Wikipedia article every day.The featured article for Thursday, 7 March 2024 is KCPQ.KCPQ (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Tacoma, Washington, United States, serving as the Fox network outlet for the Seattle area. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station KZJO (channel 22). The two stations share studios on Westlake Avenue in Seattle's Westlake neighborhood; KCPQ's main transmitter is located on Gold Mountain in Bremerton.The station signed on in August 1953 as KMO-TV, the television outgrowth of Tacoma radio station KMO. It was briefly an NBC network affiliate until another Seattle station signed on; the next year, KMO radio and television were sold to separate owners. The Seattle broadcaster J. Elroy McCaw bought channel 13, changed the call letters to KTVW, and ran it as an independent station. While KTVW produced a number of local programs, McCaw, a famously parsimonious owner, never converted the station to broadcast in color, and its syndicated programming inventory was considered meager. McCaw died in August 1969; three years later, his estate sold the station to the Blaidon Mutual Investors Corporation. While Blaidon tried several new programs and began color telecasting, the station continued to underperform financially. Two attempts to sell KTVW to out-of-state buyers failed because of its high liabilities. After a walkout by employees in January and the appointment of a receiver in July, KTVW was ordered closed on December 12, 1974.The Clover Park School District in Lakewood purchased KTVW at bankruptcy auction in 1975. The station returned to the air on a non-commercial basis as KCPQ in January 1976, serving as an effective replacement for Clover Park's UHF station, KPEC-TV (channel 56). Changes to the structure of school financing in Washington and the refusal of voters to approve bonds to rebuild Clover Park High School forced the school district to sell KCPQ back into commercial use. After being off the air for most of 1980 to relocate its transmitter, KCPQ returned under new owner Kelly Broadcasting, who rebuilt it as a more competitive independent station. During Kelly's 19-year ownership of KCPQ, the station became a Fox affiliate, relocated its studios from Lakewood to Seattle, and established its present local news department.KCPQ was sold to Tribune Broadcasting in 1999 as part of Kelly's exit from the broadcasting industry. As Tribune expanded the station's news output, it also had to fend off overtures by Fox, which had sought to own KCPQ on several occasions since the 1990s and at one point threatened to buy another station to broadcast Fox programming. Tribune was purchased by Nexstar Media Group in 2019; Nexstar then traded KCPQ to Fox as part of an exchange of Fox affiliates in three cities.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:46 UTC on Thursday, 7 March 2024.For the full current version of the article, see KCPQ on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Justin Standard.

All aboard! This episode we're discussing the non-fiction genre of Transportation and Transit! We talk trains, buses, bicycles, spaceships, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Art of the Locomotive by Ken Boyd Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik Ghost Train (four part podcast by Denver Public Radio) Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden Transit Maps of the World: Expanded and Updated Edition of the World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr. Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell Links between two cities: historic bridges between Ottawa and Hull by Lucien Brault.  Other Media We Mentioned The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways by Mike Ashley Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Orient Express by Graham Greene Maiden Railways by Asumiko Nakamura Heaven's Design Team, Vol. 1 by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, and Tarako For 2 Weeks, Switzerland Has A Rail Replacement Helicopter Vancouver's Expo Line 1990 vs 2020 Mini Metro Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig There's a documentary movie! Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig How To F#€k Up An Airport (five part podcast by Radio Spaetkauf) Some YouTube channels and videos about trains and transport things: CityNerd Not Just Bikes Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is) (See the building Anna and Matthew used to live in!) RMTransit The Tim Traveller This New LA Metro Station Should be PACKED - Here's Why It's Not Denver's Transit System is Problematic Freight Trains: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace Links, Articles, and Things Note to self: Make “derail” joke about conversation going off topic. Train_Station-Katowice_Poland.wav by jgrzinich Rail replacement bus service (Wikipedia) Slow television (Wikipedia) “It was popularised in the 2000s by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), beginning with the broadcast of a 7-hour train journey in 2009.” Fort Collins Trolley ‘I am done': Amid rider woes, is Ottawa's transit system a victim of its own success? Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow 12 Transit/Automotive/Planes/Trains/Boats books by BIPOC Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance by Adonia E. Lugo Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker by Joe Martin with Alan Hoover Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car by Woodrow Phoenix Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It by Ganesh Sitaraman Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor  The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we'll be discussing the genre of Humorous/Funny Romance! Then on Tuesday, February 20th we'll be talking about our reading resolutions for 2024! (2024? That can't be right. That's definitely the future.)  

Rob from Gold Mountain Games (who have been going from strength to strength) returned to discuss what they've been up to in the six months since the whole OGL debacle. We discuss Balder's Gate 3, Resident Evil, Bards (horny and non-horny), and Squidge's ideas for Apple stores.Remember that you can always get in touch with us on our Facebook page, on Twitter, or with our Contact page.Content WarningUsually, we'll add warnings here about swears and such, but with this episode, there was some background noise on Rob's audio. Squidge (our hard-working editor, and audio engineering expert) did everything he could to isolate and remove it, but there's one part where it's a little rough: 23:16 when Rob is describing the game SCUM.We hope the background noise doesn't take you out of the episode too much.Show NotesFrom active timer battling to zombie slaying, Waffling Taylors covers video games beyond.In part one of this episode, we are joined by Rob from Gold Mountain Games. We reminisce about gaming as we grew up, as well as covering everything from ram-raiding shop windows as pirates-for-dummies to the dangers of horny warlocks. Yeah, you'll have to wait for that one.So, without further ado, sit back, grab some snacks, and get ready for this episode entitled "A Catch-up with Rob, No Bards Allowed - Part One"Enjoy.— SquidgeFor this episode, Rob from Gold Mountain Games made his second-ever appearance on the show and wanted to talk about all things video games. You might remember him from his previous appearance where both he and his business partner Tim discussed the (then) impending changes to the Dungeons & Dragons license agreement (the Open Game License of OGL) - here's a link to that episode.But before any of that, it was important to have Rob talk about Gold Mountain Games in his own words:So, Gold Mountain Games: we are a small tabletop RPG production studio. And one of the things that's changed since last time we spoke is that we are now a tabletop production company rather than a [D&D] fifth edition production company, which is quite... I think that lots of people have done that because of what happened.But yeah, so we have our own setting, as you've mentioned, the Salt Reach Isles. We've had a successful Kickstarter for a Zine... And that focuses on one of the cities that we've written. It's got some species in it, it's got some monsters, some spells, and we are currently editing the second magazine for that. So that's going to be coming to Kickstarter in a couple of months.We've got some streams being recorded, so we've got one in our setting. We're about to start Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, partly because Baldur's Gate 3 is coming out, which is very exciting. I'm desperately stopping myself starting another playthrough before they release it fully. And that's also interesting because we've got two complete noobs playing it. So they know nothing about D&D at all....And then the other thing we've got going on at the moment, which I'm really excited about, is Dark Legacies is an amazing franchise written by Chris McCauley and Claudia Christian from Babylon 5 fame. And they've got two comics out of four out so far. There's going to be a miniatures game, there's going to be, apparently an animated TV series. There's a card game.And we've just signed a contract with them to publish their RPG, which is like Dark Legacy's Corporation Wars, it's called. I actually got some of the content yesterday and had a read through it and it's really good. It's a mixture of that kind of the Cyberpunk that you know and love with a bit of that really Dark Judge Dredd style in it. It's got bits of the Expanse in there as well. It's really interesting and I'm really excited that we're going to be publishing that... We'll be publishing the main book and then we'll also be creating more content for it. We're going to have a live stream of it as well. There's a lot of exciting stuff coming out of it.— RobSo if you're interested in tabletop gaming, Babylon 5, Cyberpunk (the tabletop RPG game, that is) and/or the futurism and grim dark of Judge Dredd, then you should be checking out Gold Mountain Games.Dungeons & Dragons, Tabletops, and NovelsAnd speaking of D&D, at the time of recording Jay was reading through Aaron A Reed's 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon - which he was a Kickstarter backer for - and talked about how interesting it is that a lot of the earliest PC games where based on either D&D or the tabletop war games that inspired Gary Gygax to come up with D&D. Which reminded Rob of his first video game memory:I was in Great Ormond Street Hospital when I was six or seven. And in there they had, like, a play area on the children's ward, and they had a computer in there and they had this text based game where you were walking through the woods and you had to find the witch's hut and avoid getting killed by the witch. And that was all.I'd completely forgotten it until you started talking about that. But yet that's probably my earliest memory of a computer game is exactly that. It's sitting there in a hospital of all places going, "oh, choose your Own adventure."I wonder how much fighting fantasy had to do with it as well.— RobAnd Squidge summed up video game history and D&D's involvement quite succinctly:It's like: early D&D is sort of like [the Rosetta Stone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone) to everything that came afterwards— SquidgeWhat's interesting about Rob's earliest video game memory is that it reminded Jay of the opening scene of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - which is an amazing book and filled with references to video games.Full Show NotesCheck out the full show notes for the full list of Squidge's questions, some extra stuff, and some links to related things.Reach out to us on Discord, Twitter, Facebook, or try our brand-new contact page.Links of Interest Join our Discord server and be part of future episodes Our Facebook page Us on Twitter Support us on Ko-Fi Gold Mountain Games On Facebook On Twitter On Instagram On Tik-Tok On Twitch On YouTube Gold Mountain Games on Patreon The Open Game License of OGL Climbing the Gold Mountain with Rob and Tim The Saltreach Isles Zine 1: Zilaram 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon the Rosetta Stone Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin SCUM Larian Studios Signing Off... For NowAnd have you left us a rating or review? We really like to hear back from listeners about our show, so check out https://wafflingtaylors.rocks/our-podcast/ for links to services where you can leave us some wonderful feedback.The Waffling Taylors is a proud member of Jay and Jay Media. If you like this episode, please consider supporting our Podcasting Network. One $3 donation provides a week of hosting for all of our shows. You can support this show, and the others like it, at https://ko-fi.com/jayandjaymedia ★ Support this podcast ★

EPISODE 231Have you ever found yourself in a heated debate on whether Brooks is working hard enough to win a tournament? Or will Brian Harman ever crack the top 10 again? Well, you're not alone. Join us as we delve into these discussions, sharing our thoughts and experiences from recent golf tournaments – from the Open to the Ryder Cup. We also discuss our memorable experiences visiting New Level Golf & Putting World in Arizona. Chambers Bay, Gold Mountain, and Salish Cliffs in Washington. And we're not just talking about our brilliant strokes; we dive into the aesthetics, condition, and performance of these courses.Now, let me paint you a picture. Imagine stepping onto the greens of Legacy Golf Course, freshly upgraded and looking better than ever. As we recount our journey through the course, we congratulate recent tournament winners and plan our upcoming visit to Aliante Golf Course. We also take you on a tour of Putting World in Phoenix and share our experience at the breathtaking Chambers Bay Golf Course. Plus, get ready to tee off at various Indian reservation golf courses and appreciate the unique features and challenging elements they offer. We don't stop there. We shift gears to talk about golfing gear – specifically, golf balls. We share our experiences with different balls and how they impacted our game. We also discuss our picks for various tournaments and introduce you to a golf sports phenom, Yana Wilson. And if you're wondering what goes into raising a sports prodigy, we're going to cover that too in a future episode, hopefully. So, prepare for an exciting journey through the world of golf, full of debates, discussions, and anecdotes from our personal experiences. Join us as we swing our way through the greens and fairways!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you haven't checked out our NEW YouTube channel, please do and hit that Subscribe Button for us! More content is coming to that channel as Matt learns the ins and outs of making better videos. We're utilizing YouTube LIVE each week, where you can watch the show as we record and comment during the episode.Please check out one of our show supporters FN3P Golf. You can save some money using our code "CDPODCAST" at checkout.If you're starting a new podcast or have one and want to make some changes to better your show, we highly recommend RIVERSIDE.FM. Use our affiliate link below to check out the software and do your part to make a better product for your listeners.If you like how the show looks and sounds lately, check out RIVERSIDE.FM, their sofThe Las Vegas Golf Superstore The premier retail destination for golfers in the Las Vegas Valley! Bob West - The Golfing Real Estate Agent Former professional golfer turned Real Estate agent servicing the Las Vegas Valley. If you're looking for a home in the Las Vegas area or want to list your current home, look no further than real estate expert and golfing professional Bob West.We hope you enjoy this week's episode, and if you do, please consider leaving us a review on either Spotify or iTunes. Thank You!

A few days ago, Laszlo sat down with good friend Hao Huang and son, Micah, at Scripps College where Hao is the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music. In 2021 they co-produced the Blood on Gold Mountain Podcast. In a pilot episode of a new show dropping Wednesday, July 19 called Iron Horse Road, Hao and Micah explain what the show is about and the trip they took to California's High Sierras that inspired it. They visited locations where more than a century and a half ago railroad workers from Southern Guangdong built these wonders of engineering. This led to a general discussion about these workers and the challenges they faced living far from home and in a land where every day presented a new set of challenges, often life-threatening. The Iron Horse Road Podcast will come out on the Blood on Gold Mountain feed. To subscribe, search for Blood on Gold Mountain or visit their website at https://blood-on-gold-mountain.captivate.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few days ago, Laszlo sat down with good friend Hao Huang and son, Micah, at Scripps College where Hao is the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music. In 2021 they co-produced the Blood on Gold Mountain Podcast. In a pilot episode of a new show dropping Wednesday, July 19 called Iron Horse Road, Hao and Micah explain what the show is about and the trip they took to California's High Sierras that inspired it. They visited locations where more than a century and a half ago railroad workers from Southern Guangdong built these wonders of engineering. This led to a general discussion about these workers and the challenges they faced living far from home and in a land where every day presented a new set of challenges, often life-threatening. The Iron Horse Road Podcast will come out on the Blood on Gold Mountain feed. To subscribe, search for Blood on Gold Mountain or visit their website at https://blood-on-gold-mountain.captivate.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few days ago, Laszlo sat down with good friend Hao Huang and son, Micah, at Scripps College where Hao is the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music. In 2021 they co-produced the Blood on Gold Mountain Podcast. In a pilot episode of a new show dropping Wednesday, July 19 called Iron Horse Road, Hao and Micah explain what the show is about and the trip they took to California's High Sierras that inspired it. They visited locations where more than a century and a half ago railroad workers from Southern Guangdong built these wonders of engineering. This led to a general discussion about these workers and the challenges they faced living far from home and in a land where every day presented a new set of challenges, often life-threatening. The Iron Horse Road Podcast will come out on the Blood on Gold Mountain feed. To subscribe, search for Blood on Gold Mountain or visit their website at https://blood-on-gold-mountain.captivate.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few days ago, Laszlo sat down with good friend Hao Huang and son, Micah, at Scripps College where Hao is the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music. In 2021 they co-produced the Blood on Gold Mountain Podcast. In a pilot episode of a new show dropping Wednesday, July 19 called Iron Horse Road, Hao and Micah explain what the show is about and the trip they took to California's High Sierras that inspired it. They visited locations where more than a century and a half ago railroad workers from Southern Guangdong built these wonders of engineering. This led to a general discussion about these workers and the challenges they faced living far from home and in a land where every day presented a new set of challenges, often life-threatening. The Iron Horse Road Podcast will come out on the Blood on Gold Mountain feed. To subscribe, search for Blood on Gold Mountain or visit their website at https://blood-on-gold-mountain.captivate.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last time we spoke about the final days of the first Sino-Japanese War, the invasion of the Pescadores Islands, Taiwan and the Treaty of Shimonoseki. The Japanese had taken Port Arthur, Weihaiwei and were on the verge of marching upon Beijing. The Qing were slow to action on the negotiation front leading to three attempts to reach a peace agreement. However in the meantime the Japanese prolonged things for just enough time to allow their amphibious forces to invade the Pescadore islands and Taiwan. Li Hongzhang became the scapegoat for the entire conflict and was forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Shimonoseki. However in the end it would also be Japan getting served a nasty deal because of the Triple Intervention of Germany, France and Russia. The balance of power in the east had dramatically changed, and with change comes movement, the movement of many people, all over the world.   #55 This episode is, Overseas Chinese   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. I did not know when I was going to tackle this subject, but I figured after the first Sino-Japanese war would be a good place. The 1890's-1900 is a sort of odd window of time for China where a lot of change occurs. When I was doing my undergraduate in History, a requirement of my University was to take a certain amount of courses in specific fields of history, one was Canadian history as I am from Quebec and its just forced on you. In one of those courses I had to spend an extensive amount of time learning about the Chinese-Canadian experience, particularly during the end half of the 19th century. Now I know the majority of you listeners are American and probably know the general history of Chinese immigration to America during the 19th century. For Canada is quite similar, first thing that comes to mind for all of you I imagine is the railroad work. Its a fundamental part of both America and Canada's history, the building of some of the great railroads and unfortunately the terrible mistreatment of Asian immigrants. In this episode however I don't want to just talk about Canada and the United States, because in truth, Chinese immigration saw Chinese going to all sorts of nations, for various reasons. I also believe it gives us a better understanding of all the events we have spoken about and how they affect the common person. There are more than 50 million Oversea Chinese today, most of them are in Southeast Asia, in places like Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand and such. They represent one of the highest figures of immigration in the world. Their migration goes back to ancient times, roughly 2000 years ago during the opening of the maritime silk road. Chinese immigrants were moving mainly to Southeast Asia. When the 15th century came around, Chinese began moving to places like Sumatra and Java, establishing what we call today, Chinatowns. Where trade went, so did the Chinese and by the 16th century trade began to pick up with Europe. Europeans began to establish themselves in the Far East, looking to trade and in the process integrated numerous places within a world trade network. European powers began to compete with another to expand and develop colonies in places like Southeast Asia and this in turn increased a demand for Chinese merchants and laborers. When the 17th century rolled around, there was an estimated 100,000 or so Chinese scattered about Southeast Asia and 20-30 thousand perhaps in Japan. Many Chinese came over during the Wokou years, setting up bases in Japan to help raid mainland China as pirates. When the Manchu conquered the Ming dynasty, numerous Chinese refugees fled to Japan to escape Manchu rule.  Now its during the 19th century when we really begin to see massive movements to the far reaches of the globe. When the age of colonialism was at its height so too would Chinese immigration be at its height, and with it a diaspora began. By the starting of the 19th century, millions of Chinese pulled up stakes and left for unfamiliar and faraway places, why? During the final century of the Qing dynasty, China began to struggle with mounting challenges as I think we all have seen in this series. These problems were both internal and external in nature. Internally, the Qing had doubled their territory, incorporating areas in the north and west which were sparsely populated, adding ethnic and religious diversity to the empire. There were Manchu, Hans, Mongolians, Tibetans, Muslims and such. Alongside this, the population exploded because of new irrigation and water management techniques that were helping tackle China's most troublesome historic nemesis, floods and droughts. New crops had come over from the America's such as corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts. The new foodstuffs could be grown in areas of China that historically always had trouble growing stuff, allowing for new lands to be expanded upon such as the southwest and northeast. As the nutrition improved, China's population exploded. By 1740 the Qing dynasty numbered 140 million, but by 1850 this increased to a whopping 430 million. Population growth holds numerous benefits to a nation, such as increasing economic activity, but it can also cause great strain. China took a very very long time to industrialize. In the early half of the 1800s, most Chinese supported themselves through farming, but with the population booming, less and less land pushed more and more to find new lands. The Qing government meanwhile, as we have seen in this series, proceeded to become incredibly corrupt. Their officials neglected the common people and engaged in corruption purely to enrich themselves, and they gradually became more and more inept at governance. With a corrupt government and a booming population of dissatisfied people, 19th century China was ripe for conflict. The first major one was the White Lotus Rebellion of 1796-1804. It broke out in response to famine, overcrowding of land and from the harassment by corrupt Qing officials. The cult lashed out, resulting in the deaths of millions and costing the Qing dynasty nearly 100 million taels. Then the First Opium War broke out against Britain resulting in a humiliating defeat and the beginning of unequal treaties upon China. After this, the worst civil war in history, the Taiping rebellion broke out, yet again during a time of famine, with another cult, the Taiping led by Hong Xiuquan who nearly toppled the Qing Dynasty leading to the death of over 20 million or so people. Alongside the Taiping was the Nian rebellion and the second opium war, inviting more death and humiliating treaties tossed upon China. The Dungan revolt killed another 10 or so million people, causing countless Hui Muslims to flee into surrounding neighboring states.  The turmoil of the mid 19th century caused terrible suffering on the people of China whether it be from drought, famine, war, governmental harassment or simply incompetence and when this becomes your everyday life, what do you do to improve it? Well after witnessing such foreign barbarians nearly toppling your government multiple times, showcasing technologies you've never seen before, you might get curious what its like in their nations. Once the bans were lifted Christian missionaries were pouring into China from these nations. These people didn't not simply sail over to China either, in the mid 19th century the invention of steamships made sea crossings much faster and safer. With steamships came railroads, a much more efficient way to move raw materials and people across land. Steamships and railroads would have a profound effect on China. The construction of railroads required a lot of work, particularly dangerous work of clearing land and laying tracks. European colonies, the Americas, Southeast Asia, Oceania and other far reaching places had enormous demand for laborer, whether it be in construction, agriculture, mining, railway building, etc. Plantations for rice, rubber, fruit, sugar, tea, hell the mining of guano was huge, talk about a shitty job. Like we see today, companies sought cheap and exploitable pools of labor to fit their demands, many of them turned to China. China because of the Opium wars and later the First Sino-Japanese War had opened up countless treaty ports, she was burst open. Now there were fundamentally two rationales for Chinese migration, the first being flight and the second economic. Flight refers to those literally driven to flee where they were because of war, famine, disease, natural disasters, terrible government and persecution. Economic refers to the drive to just improve one's life, maybe the grass is greener on the other side as they say. Both of these rationales could lead to temporary move or permanent and it did not necessarily mean leaving China either, let's not forget a ton of internal moving was occurring.  Now during the Taiping Rebellion as the violence escalated countless people fled. Take for example the wealthy class, whenever Taiping entered an area, obviously these people feared losing everything as the Taiping confiscated all wealth. Therefor countless fled to newly opened treaty ports like Shanghai where foreign protection was to be found. They began dealing with the foreigners and discovered some mutual interests. This was a large reason places like Shanghai and Hong Kong were transformed into booming sophisticated cities. But for the countless common people, the Taiping-Qing war saw a large mobile population, wandering wherever seemed safe at the time. Many of these people fled to provinces in the southwest and southeast of China. When the war ended, major food and tax producing provinces were de-populated, take Jiangsu for example which saw 70% of its population of around 24 million people. Anhui and Zhejiang lost around 50% of their respective 15 million or so people. When the war was finally over, the flight migrants did not all return. Hubei, Hunan and Henan saw a ton of their people simply pack up and set up shop east. A lot of people also fled into Manchuria which had always been sparsely populated, even though it was one of the richest areas for agriculture and natural resources. The Qing had always limited migration to Manchuria, trying to protect the Manchu homelands, but beginning in the 1860's the Qing leadership had a change of heart. There were two major reasons for this; number 1 the Taiping rebellion had ravaged the governmental budget, prosperous agricultural regions that provided a ton of tax revenue were depopulated. China had indemnity payments to pay the British and French, money needed to be made, so the Qing began selling land in Manchuria and increased taxes upon it once it started to become more productive. The second reason was Russia. Russia was encroaching into Manchuria, and the Qing worried its sparse population would leave it vulnerable, so they opened the doors to the Han to help out. Now it was not just the Russian encroaching into Manchuria, the Japanese also had their eyes on the region. As I explained briefly towards the end of last episode, the Russians basically swindled the Japanese with the triple intervention, managing to seize a 25 year lease over the Liaodong peninsula in 1898. The Russians quickly went to work developing the region's agriculture, mining and crucially its railways. All of this required the pumping of money into Manchuria further building up the desire for Chinese migration to fill the large demands. Now this was all internal movements, what about the external? Millions of Chinese responded to the international demand for labor during the mid to late 19th century, taking them first to Southeast Asia, and then to all the corners of the world. The major reason they were able to do this in large scale was because of the new steamships and the increase of foreigners inside China telling them about the various nations they came from. The majority of early migrants came from the wealthy class, who sought to move their families and businesses abroad. These types of businesses were typically, Luandromats, stores, restaurants and such. They mostly came from Guangdong and Fujian as southern China was in turmoil due to the opium trade and Taiping Rebellion. Southern China had become fertile grounds for western companies to come over and recruit or even Shanghai laborers. The British picked up Chinese and brought them to build up their colonies in Malaya and Singapore, while the Dutch brought them over to Sumatra. They worked in sweltering hot plantations, for tea, rubber, rice, fruit or in the great tin mines of Malaya for example.  This all of course becomes quite dark, I briefly talked about the “pig trade”, the pigs being Chinese coolies who were either hired or kidnapped into indentured servitude overseas. Britain had outlawed slavery in 1807, but the experience for these poor souls would be very reminiscence of the western african slave trade. The term “shanghaied” comes from this time, when Chinese were sometimes drugged up or boozed up and tossed onto ships going to various places like Trinidad, British Honduras, Jamaica, New South Wales, British Guiana, Peru, Cuba, all over really. Now the Pig trade was quite reviled, take this passage from 1852 by foreign secretary Lord Malmesbury “iniquities scarcely exceeding those practiced on the African coast and on the African middle passage have not been wanting…the jails of China [have been] emptied to supply ‘labour' to British colonies…hundreds [of coolies] gathered together in barracoons, stripped naked and stamped or painted with the letter C (California), P (Peru) or S (Sandwich Islands) on their breasts, according to destination.” It was actually the gradual abolition of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery itself that rose the demand for Chinese coolies. The British were the pioneers on this front sending 200 Chinese laborers over to Trinidad in 1806 to quote “in an attempt to establish a settlement of free peasant cultivators and laborers” these initial shipments saw Chinese on vessels that had been used to transport African slaves in previous years. The Trinidad experiment failed, only 20 to 30 of the 200 Chinese remained on the island by the 1820's, however such stories inspired people like Sir John Gladstone to bring Chinese over to sugar plantation in British Guiana in the hopes of replacing the lost Afro-Caribbean workforce because the slave trade was coming to an end. Now the logistics of coolie labor were, murky lets say. Most in theory were under contract, paid, to be temporary, one would say consensual. Regardless many in Britain rightfully saw how horrible it was and tried to fight to end the trade or at least improve conditions for the Chinese coolies. Many of these humane reformers argued the Chinese would be tricked into signing employment contracts based on misleading promises, often kidnapped or even sold by coolie merchants within China. Yes a lot of these unfortunate men, had debts, like gambling debts and their lenders simply sold them off. But there were many who volunteered, because they were offered free passage and paid something like 20 cents per day. While I have been focusing on the British, everyone was in the game somewhat, take for example the Portuguese who held Macao which was the center of the coolie trade. It was said from 1848-1873 Macao's only real business was trading coolie slaves, and eventually it became so bad the British forced them to ban it. Spain sent Cuba two large shipments of Chinese Coolies in 1847 to work the sugar fields in Havana, these men came from Xiamen, one of the treaty ports that opened after the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. When Guangdong opened up, Peru saw a ton of Chinese coolies come over to work in their silver mines and in guano cultivation. When their contracts were up, many integrated into the countries of Peru, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Before 1959 when the Cuban revolution broke out, Havana held latin americans largest Chinatown, a result of the coolie trade. South America saw around 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers come over between 1850 and the late 1870s. The most vulnerable would be those poor souls deceived by false contracts or kidnapped who saw themselves basically thrown into slavery. For the majority who went to Cuba and Peru this was to be the case. After a 4 month grueling journey crammed onto a ship like a sardine, they would arrive to be met with cruelty and abuse. Most would find their contracts were written in such a way that it would make it nearly impossible for them to ever repay the cost of their passage, which was not covered for, also housing and food. When reports began to surface between 1847-1854 about the abuse of those going to Cuba and Peru, British tried to take responsibility by closing ports sending these people off in China, such as Amoy, but this simply led Macao to become the largest coolie port in the end. Hell some of these Chinese participated in the War of the Pacific known also as the Saltpeter war, where they burned down many of the haciendas they worked for. 2000 Chinese coolies joined a Chilean Army in Peru helping the wounded and burying the dead. The Germans brought some over to German Samoa to work on their plantations which only ended during WW1 when Anzac seized such islands. The French shipping of Chinese coolies to Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, the French west indies and such, as this also involved Indian coolies. Then came the age of Gold Rushes, all around the world large scale gold rushes emerged, in Oceania, Africa, South American and North America. In Australia the population tripled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871, making Australia the first multicultural society during the gold rush period. The gold rush began in may of 1851 after a prospector named Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered gold in Ophir. Hargreaves had been to California's goldfields learning gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling. Victoria would see the first large goldrush in July of 1851 and word spread fast. 290,000 migrated to Victoria from British territories, 15,000 from European nations, 18,000 from the US, but not all were welcome. In 1855, 11,493 Chinese arrived in Melbourne, which saw Victoria enact the Chinese immigration act of 1855 in response. This severely limited the number of Chinese passengers permitted on an arriving vessel, but to evade the new law, many Chinese began landing in southern parts of Australia and would hike it sometimes 400kms across the country to get to the Victoria goldfields. In 1865 Richard Daintree discovered the Cape River Goldfield which soon attracted Chinese to Queensland for the first time. In 1872 James Mulligan discovered gold in the Palmer River around Cooktown, seeing 3 years of waves upon waves of Chinese prospectors. By 1977 over 18,000 residents were Chinese miners. I wanted to leave the United States and Canada for last if you were wondering, as I think they are the most well known stories of Chinese immigration. Also there are numerous nations I could not cover, this story is far too expensive I do apologize. So lets start with a very popular story, that of the great Californian Gold rush. In 1848 James W Marshall found Gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news soon brought over 300,000 people to California. While most were Americans, the gold rush also attracted thousands from Latin America, Oceania, Europe and China. The Chinese began arriving in 1849, the first major rush was to Gum San nicknamed “Gold Mountain” by the newly arrived Chinese. In 1849, around 90,000 people had come over, of which around 50-60 thousand were american. By 1852 20,000 Chinese had landed in the San Francisco area. Their distinct dress and appearance made them particularly recognizable in the goldfields and they were met with a ton of racism and violence. The American miners were frustrated with all the foreigners encroaching and the Chinese were easier target than other groups. Initially the Chinese worked for themselves or labored with other miners, but the American miners began to press upon the government to thwart more Chinese from coming over. The California legislature passed a foreign miners license law in 1850, charging non-US citizens 20$ per month. The law would be repealed within a year because of how exorbitant the fees were. This did not dissuade the Chinese who would go on to found America's first Chinatown in San Francisco, where by 1852 the Chinese now accounted for 30% of all immigrants. In response the California legislature passed another foreign miners tax now at 4$ per month. Many Chinese thrived during this time despite the hurdles they faced. Chinese mining companies like John China Placer Mining company and Hong Kong China Wing Dam company hired up to 20 workers and provided industrial equipment, expanding large scale operations. Small scale workers cooperatives amongst the Chinese also thrived in the 1850's which operated similar to the larger companies, using a share-risk system amongst workers. Many Chinese also chose to work for wages from white employers. Its estimated though it varies greatly, that Chinese miners were making around 39-50 dollars a month which would have been around the average wage for white miners. But as you can imagine there was much hardship, and the violence could get incredibly bad. Take for example what is known as the Hells Canyon Massacre. In 1887 two groups of Chinese miners headed to Oregon's Hells canyon to search for gold. On May 25th of 1887, 7 White Horse gang members, these were horse thieves, they robbed, murdered and mutilated between 10-34 of the Chinese miners who were employee's of the Sam Yup company. Its said they stole up to a possible 50,000$ worth in gold. Historian David H Stratton described the massacre as such,  “The brutality of the Snake River atrocity was probably unexcelled, whether by whites or Indians, in all the anti-Chinese violence of the American West. After the first day's onslaught at Robinson Gulch, the killers wrecked and burned the camp and then threw the mutilated corpses into the Snake River. The bodies of the other Chinese received similar treatment. Since it was the high-water stage of the spring runoff, the dead Chinese were found for months (some accounts say for years) afterwards along the lower river.” On the 26th more Chinese showed up to investigate the scene and 8 were shot dead by the gang. Later on in 1888 one Frank Vaughn confessed to taking part in the crime giving up the names of 6 associates. Most had departed america save for Vaughn and another man named Hughes. Their gang leader, Bruce Evan's known as “old blue” was blamed for everything, but he escaped custody. Now by the 1860's the goldrush was quieting down, leaving many Chinese looking for work and they found it in railway construction. The first major railway seeing Chinese workers was the first transcontinental railroad which linked up California to the eastern united states. Construction began in 1863 with terminal points at Omaha, Nebraska and Sacramento. Despite the Goldrush raising California's population, a large number of Chinese were recruited in 1865 to help build up the railway. Many of these were former gold or silver miners and it was Charles Crocker a manager of the Central Pacific Railroad who was one of the first trying to hire Chinese. As he pointed out to his colleagues, hiring Chinese as opposed to whites as they cost a third of the salary. Crocker also pointed out they could hire the Chinese immigrants to do much of the grueling work and particularly the dangerous jobs. Crocker soon broke records for laying track, finishing the project 7 years ahead of time. This was due to the fact he worked the men to down to the bones. The central pacific track was constructed primarily by Chinese, Crocker initially hired every Chinese he could find in California, but soon began importing Chinese workers directly from China. The railroad had to pass over river and through canyons requiring bridges to be made and tunnels to be blown open. Many of the Chinese workers would be sent into tunnels to break through using hand tools and black power bombs. To tunnel through places like the the foothills of Sierra Nevada, the Central Pacific began to use the newly invented but extremely unstable Nitro-glycerine explosives, aka TNT. This greatly accelerated the rate of construction and deaths for the poor Chinese workers who used them. The work often saw Chinese workers tossed in large baskets with the explosives down to hard to reach areas, they would lit the fuse and the basket would be pulled as fast as it could away from the blast area, not safe. Over 11,000 Chinese took part in the project and they made up 90% of the work effort. A large portion of them came from Guangdong, recruited through a network of small firms and labor contractors. Its estimated around 1000 Chinese died building the Central Pacific Railroad.  Now as the Chinese came to the US for the Goldrush and then railroad construction, they were met with a lot of racism, violence and legislative efforts. I mentioned the American miners pushing for legislation against them, but when the Chinese began working on the railways this greatly expanded. In the 1870's various legal discriminatory measures were being made against the Chinese. In San Francisco Chinese school children from 1859-1870 were segregated, but in 1870 the requirement to educate them was simply dropped. Also in 1870 the Naturalization act which extended citizenship rights to African Americans specifically barred Chinese on the grounds they could not be assimilated into American society. Chinese immigrants were thus prohibited from voting, jury duty (which lets be honest is a blessing) and faced alien land laws prohibited them from purchasing property or establishing permanent homes or businesses. In 1873 the Pigtail Ordinance, you heard that right, targeted Qing dynasty immigrants based on their Queues. The law required prisoners in San Francisco to have their hair cut within an inch of their scalp and any Qing citizens who went to prison and had their queues cut, meant they could not go back home until it grew back. The law was passed with the idea it would dissuade Chinese immigration. Two years later came the Page Act of 1875, barring Chinese women from entering the US. This was justified under the guise many who came over were performing sex work. In reality it was another measure taken to dissuade Chinese immigration. This was followed up in 1882 by the infamous Chinese exclusion act which prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. All of this was strongly driven by frustrated American workers who saw the Chinese as a threat to their jobs. Miners and railway workers pressed unions which pressed the legislatures to toss countless anti-Chinese laws trying to dissuade them from coming to the US. With so much discrimination and hurdles tossed at them, the Chinese began moving somewhere else to make ends meet. Chinese immigrants began arriving to the then Colony of Vancouver island in the late 1850's looking for gold. The colony of British Columbia, much like California was seeing a gold rush. The first Chinese community was established in Barkerville where half its population were Chinese. Soon other Chinatowns emerged in Richfield, Van Winkle, Quesnellemouthe, Stanley, Antlery and Quesnelle forks. By 1860 the Chinese population of Vancouver island and British columbia was around 7000. Then in 1871, British Columbia agreed to join the confederation of Canada and one of its conditions to do so was for the new federal government of Canada to build a railway linking BC to Eastern Canada, yes its basically the exact same thing as California with the Eastern US. Prime Minister John A Macdonald along with numerous investors realized the project would be unbelievably expensive. They also realized they could cut costs by employing Chinese laborers, as Macdonald told Parliament in 1882 “it is simply a question of alternatives either you must have this labour or you can't have the railway”. In 1880 Andrew Onderdonk, one of the main construction contractors in British Columbia for the new Canadian Pacific Railway began recruiting Chinese laborers from California. Learning from the Americans he also began importing Chinese workers from Guangdong and Taiwan. The Chinese workers were hired for the first 320 kms of the CPR which was considered to be the most difficult and dangerous segments, particularly the parts going through Fraser Canyon. Like their american counterparts they were paid much less than white Canadians, around 50% on the dollar.  Between 1880-1885, 17000 Chinese workers came to build the CPR with around 700 dying due to the terrible work conditions. The CPR's construction resulted in the establishment of Chinatowns along the rail line which further resulted in Chinese communities spreading across Canada. Following directly in the footsteps as the Americans, when the CPR was finished in 1884, the following year saw the infamous Chinese Head Tax. The Canadian government levied its first of many to come, anti chinese immigration acts, to discourage Chinese from coming to Canada. The head tax system stipulated all Chinese people entering Canada first had to pay 50$ ie: the head tax. This would be amended to 100$ in 1900, 500$ in 1903 and so forth. Because of this, basically no Chinese laborers could afford to bring over their families, though BC's Chinese communities still grew. In British columbia the perception of all the asians coming into the province, as it was not just the Chinese, many Japanese came over particularly for the fishing industry, well they perceived these people to be taking their jobs. Australia likewise had tossed up immigration restriction acts in 1901, the infamous “white australia policy” which eliminated asian immigration after their federation, and Canada would try the same. The Asian Exclusion League in Canada, yes there was a league just for this lobbied as much as they could to thwart Chinese immigration. I did not want to delve into the 20th century in this episode, but I did want to touch upon the violence that would occur in BC. In 1907 tension had increased, as more and more Asian immigrants were flooding over into BC from the US as a result of their anti chinese regulations, kind of a hot potato situation. By the end of October 1907 over 11,440 immigrants came over, 8125 were Japanese, 1266 Chinese and Sikhs made up 2049. Anti-Asian acts were blowing up and soon full blown riots spread.  The Asian exclusion league developed a new immigration act, but the federal government refused to back it. This led to outrage which led to its members starting a parade on September 7th of 1907. This parade turned into a mob riot where Chinese and Japanese neighborhoods were attacked. Asian owned businesses were vandalized, beer bottles were tossed at windows, fires were lit, the rioters were trying to destroy businesses. They came to Japantown where armed Japanese residents fought back, over 50 stores had their windows broken in and the entire riot only died down around 3am. Labour Minister MacKenzie King, yes the soon to be Prime Minister of Canada conducted a commission into the riots finding the damage to be worth around 26,000$ for the Chinese community and 9000$ for the Japanese. The riot directly led to the 1908 “gentleman's agreement”, one I might add not many people know about, not as notably as the head tax, but this was a secret agreement between Japan and Canada to restrict the number of passports issued to Japanese annually at under 400 peoples. It was a dark part of Canadian history. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. I do apologize if this episode is more on the gloomy side, but do not forget these asian communities are thriving today all around the world. I plan to do another episode on Overseas Chinese in the 20th century, so I hope you enjoyed this one and come back for some more!

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Welcome to Media in the Mix, the only podcast produced and hosted by the School of Communication at American University. Join us as we create a safe space to explore topics and communication at the intersection of social justice, tech, innovation & pop culture. Today, we welcome guest, Maggie Burnette Stogner! Join us as we talk documentary filmmaking, experiential learning opportunities, and Maggie's newest documentary project! Maggie Burnette Stogner is the Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking (www.environmentalfilm.org) and a professor of Film and Media Arts. She brings over 30 years of filmmaking experience to the Center and to the classroom. During her nine years at National Geographic, she produced, directed and wrote numerous documentaries, and was senior producer of the award-winning weekly programs Explorer and Ultimate Explorer. Her recent films include the award-winning "Upstream, Downriver" (2022) www.upstreamdownriver.org,  "Unbreathable - The Fight For Healthy Air" (2020) www.unbreathable.org, and "In the Executioner's Shadow" (2018), which are distributed by New Day Films, www.newday.com. She also directed, produced, and wrote the broadcast documentary "Gold Mountain" (2016) about pioneering Chinese in the West. She is founder of Blue Bear Films (Blue Bear Films) and has an impressive record of creating documentaries as well as immersive media for world-touring cultural exhibitions for National Geographic, the Smithsonian, LucasFilms, and others. Her award-winning work includes two King Tut exhibitions; The Greeks; Real Pirates; Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures; Indiana Jones and Adventure of Archaeology; and Roads of Arabia. Visit https://www.american.edu/soc/environmental-film/ to learn more about the Center for Environmental Filmmaking and how you can get involved!  To donate to the Center for Environmental Filmmaking, click HERE! Follow @environmentalfilm to learn more!

Increased shipping in the Chinese treaty ports leads to Chinese migration abroad. Workers flock to Old Gold Mountain near San Francisco and Gold Mountain near Melbourne, Australia. The Chinese do better when they can work freely rather than as indentured coolies. Abuses and racism greet them worldwide. The Chinese learn non-violent resistance with Gandhi and self-advocacy in English speaking democracies. A national re-awakening accompanies remittances from abroad.Episode Transcript: Transcript of Episode 15 (chineserevolution.info)Image: "Local Villager Mining for Gold and Gems in Thailand" by Captain Kimo is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

News of the 1848 discovery of gold in California spread quickly, and thousands of Chinese migrants flocked to California to seek a better life in the place they called "Gold Mountain." But the reality awaiting them was a far cry from streets paved with gold. Despite facing racism and incredible hardship, many ultimately found opportunities to prosper in the Golden State. On today's show, author and historian Lisa See joins host Lindsay Graham to discuss the Chinese experience of the gold rush, and her own family's journey to California, which she chronicled in her book On Gold Mountain.Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. https://wondery.app.link/historytellersSupport us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Remember that you can always get in touch with us on our Discord server, Facebook page, on Twitter, or with our Contact page.Adventurers and world-builders alike will be thrilled as Gold Mountain Games joined us to talk through The Saltreach Isles. Rob and Tim joined us to discuss their upcoming campaign, the world-building behind it, and whether the recent changes to the OGL will affect it. We also talk about their personal opinions on the changes to the OGL.Here's a sample of the full show notes - make sure to click through and check them out.Content WarningWe talk about the recent (at the time of recording) changes to the Open Game License (or OGL) in this episode, and both Rob and Tim have very closely held opinions about those recent changes. They are two very passionate table-top gamers, and we wanted to keep their opinions on the matter in-tact. The only editorialising we did was bleep the odd swear word - of which there were only two or three.Please listen responsibly.Show NotesJay covered the intro in this episode:From active timer battling to zombie slaying, Waffling Taylors covers all kinds of gaming and beyond.This week we were joined bit Rob and Tim of Gold Mountain Gamers to talk about their new TTRG campaign "The Saltreach Isles" and how they went about creating it.It's important to note that we recorded this episode during the height of the changes to the OGL (or Open Gaming License) from Wizards of the Coast. This is the backbone of Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons and Dragons-like content, and the changes brought about by Wizards of the Coast brought about a LOT of backlash from the community; which we talked about.Also, unfortunately Squidge was ill when we recorded episode, so he's not in this one. But I talked with both Rob and Tim afterwards, and they are more than happy to come back to the show and talk both Squidgey and myself through their updates as they continue their world building and production of "The Saltreach Isles"- JayGold Mountain GamesA discussion about Gold Mountain Games, their table-top RGPs and the personal thoughts of both Tim and Rob on the recent changes to the OGL couldn't have happened without first discussing what Gold Mountain Games are and what they do:Yeah, absolutely cool. We've got a couple of one shots out and we've also got a settings book. We can go into a bit more detail about that later on, I think, but yeah table-top RPGs is what we do.- RobBut they're not just another TTRPG company, as Tim explained:And we like to approach everything from a very professional mindset. Right. So as much as we're all still fans that are playing the games and really wanting to make this a fully realized company and everything else, we're still working with artists and writers on professional, contract level work in order to make certain that our visions are as clear and concise and as awe inspiring as possible for the end users once they get the products.- TimBut what about the people behind Gold Mountain Games? First Rob:I'm Rob. I'm the owner and executive director of Gold Mountain Games.I've been playing tabletop RPGs for about a decade. I've been - before that, I was massively into the boardgame scene. I set up one of the biggest boardgame clubs in the UK. I've got a boardgame tattooed on me. I've got my favourite fantasy author tattooed on me. I'm a mega geek and tabletop RPGs have been a large part of my life and kind of formed a lot of my friendships and helped me with lots of troubles in my life. And I just think they're great and I wanted to give back some of that awesomeness.- RobAnd Tim:So my name is Tim. I am one of the directors at Gold Mountain Games.My primary function is the business and the sales. The marketing, the business side of it actually my day job, if you want to call it that. Heavy quotes there is. I work within the gaming industry during the day. I'm actually a sales representative at Cryptozoic Entertainment and I also do contract work for other companies.So it's funny, when Rob actually reached out to me the first time, I was just like, "yeah, I want to do some writing." And then we got to talking, I was like, "oh wait, no, we need this slot filled more for a lot." So for folks out there, what I do is the boring corporate stuff, but it's also very necessary stuff for when we get to the point of getting the products out there, really letting them shine.- TimWhat's The Saltreach Isles Isles All About?Discussion turned to that of their new campaign (due out soon) called "The Saltreach Isles", and it's amazing just how much world-building the team at Gold Mountain Games has put into this campaign:The Saltreach Isles is a massive archipelago world. We've got 24 islands ranging from kind of big central, kind of multiple kind of species and empires on them. We've got tiny little islands that have a one group may occupy more than one of them.It came about really from there isn't really a setting for D&D - which is what it was written for - there isn't one that kind of takes in the scope and the differences that you get in kind of island nations and archipelagos. And I think it gave us this really interesting mechanism we could use with kind of over time, the islands breaking up from a - I forget the word now - a Pangaea, one big continent. So a lot of the world is tied into kind of the evolution of the planet as a whole.We've got Gods that aren't really Gods. We've got real kind of unique takes on a lot of the species that people would be used to from DnD. And we've also added orcs, trolls and goblins because I love me a green skin. I think they're all great. My very first Warhammer were orcs back when I was like 12 or 13 and I've just loved them ever since.But one of the things I really wanted to do is I wanted to bring them kind of into the modern age. I wanted to get rid of this idea that they are unintelligent roots who kill and maim for fun. That had its place. I think the Middle earth needed its bad guys and the orcs were amazing. However, I wanted to do something more interesting with them.- RobWhilst the game uses the typical creatures and species you might find in most DnD fantasy campaigns, the team have spent the time to really think about why the creatures should exist:And for me, I really wanted to do everything I could to make certain that they felt like there was a reason for them being in this world other than like, hey, I made a monster throw it against your players. Every creature I wrote has a reason for being there.- TimAnd Rob went on to talk about how they are creating deep culture and lore around the histories of the different species, and the factions within them. The team behind the game have also thought very clearly about diversity and inclusion in creating this campaign...one of the other things we've tried to do, and I think we've been very successful with it, is we've tried to be very open and accepting and inclusive with our writing.We have very many kind of NPCs named characters, some of the Gods as well. They're male, female, and they/them. Inclusivity is really important to us as a company, right? Whether that's because of life choices, whether that's because of religion, whether that's because of disability; whatever it is, I think it's really important that everyone gets the chance to play who they want to be in a game.So that's kind of that's influenced a lot of our decision making through it, especially because we're not writing a kind of Eurocentric or Western centric setting, we've kind of made sure that we've talked to people from cultures similar to the one in the Saltreach Isles. And so that's been I've learnt some amazing things and we've got one of our writers, actually South American, and there's a lot of influences from their culture within the monsters and some truly terrifying creatures from folklore from around the world that we brought in.- RobFull Show NotesMake sure to check out the full show notes for more discussion on the points we raise, some extra meta-analysis, and some links to related things.Have you listened to Nomad's podcast? What are your first memories of Resident Evil? If you do subscribe to his show (and you totally should), tell him that we sent you.Let us know on Discord, Twitter, Facebook, or try our brand-new contact page.LinksHere are some links to some of the things we discussed in this episode: Join our Discord server and be part of future episodes Our Facebook page Us on Twitter Support us on Ko-Fi Gold Mountain Gamers On Facebook On Twitter On Instagram On Tik-Tok On Twitch On YouTube Gold Mountain Games on Patreon And have you left us a rating or review? We really like to hear back from listeners about our show, so check out https://wafflingtaylors.rocks/our-podcast/ for links to services where you can leave us some wonderful feedback.The Waffling Taylors is a proud member of Jay and Jay Media. If you like this episode, please consider supporting our Podcasting Network. One $3 donation provides a week of hosting for all of our shows. 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After a rough start, we get in to the unfortunate event that took place this weekend at Gold Mountain with some people that did not understand trail etiquette or stewardship of our offroad trails. Then we get in to the preparations for SEMA in two weeks.

Connor and Dylan are joined by Kennedy Kanagawa (Into the Woods). Milky White is in the house, y'all! The twins meet Kennedy, the breakout star of Into the Woods on Broadway. He's not just a simple puppet… Listen in as the guys discuss Virgo season, the drama of Twitter Circles, dream casting Into the Woods, Theatre TikTok troubles, Gold Mountain by Jason Ma, Falsettoland with Ann Harada, growing up in Tokyo, Kennedy's love story with David Gow, and a dream coming true by being a part of the critically lauded revival of Into the Woods.Follow Kennedy on Twitter & InstagramFollow DRAMA. on Twitter & InstagramFollow Connor MacDowell on Twitter & InstagramFollow Dylan MacDowell on Twitter & InstagramEdited by ConnorGet your DRAMA merch (t-shirts, stickers, and more) HERE!SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON HERE! Bonus episodes, Instagram Close Friends content, and more!

In this episode, we will be heading back to Big Bear CA to try our luck at Gold Mountain 3N69. Gold Mountain is one of the more challenging offroad / 4x4 trails on the Big Bear Mountain Range. The trail starts by immediately winding its way up to just over 8,000 feet. Due to the technical challenges of this rock crawling trail and its unique location overlooking Big Bear Lake, this trail is a popular destination for many off-roaders. Besides the simplicity of the location, Gold Mountain offers drivers two different technical ledge/waterfalls, the most significant rock garden on the mountain - the best spot for group photos, and the best views of the resort town. But be ready; the trail can easily deceive most drivers resulting in body damage to your rocker panels or something worse. GAIA GPS link = https://www.gaiagps.com/map/?loc=13.4/-116.8438/34.2866&pubLink=CScozggEovRSAHr3qBPXmki8&trackId=923a32ec-ea6c-4f18-8061-cc01518482f8&layer=usfs-mvum,usfs-recsites help support the channel= https://streamelements.com/dangerclose1020/tip EMAIL bravooverland@gmail.com

In this podcast, LA Opera Connects director Andréa Fuentes interviews composer Nathan Wang, author and librettist Lisa See and director Jennifer Chang regarding On Gold Mountain, an opera based on Lisa See's book of the same title. See On Gold Mountain May 5-15, in the newly expanded Chinese Garden at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Tickets are available now, only at The Huntington's website; Huntington.org.

David and Perry discuss recent awards and nominations, say a sad farewell to a friend, and talk about their recent reading, several items of which seem to deal with the loss of memory. General News (07:25) Hugo Nominees (03:57) Philip K. Dick Award (00:26) Compton Crook Award (00:28) 2022 Shadows Awards (00:58) BSFWA Awards (01:03) RIP Christine Ashby (02:30) What have we been reading? (01:13:48) The Last Woman in the World by Inga Simpson (06:07) The Spare Room by Helen Garner (10:37) Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore (04:53) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (08:22) Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (07:50) SFF Novellas from 2021 (Pt. 1) (14:12) Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Garth Powell (03:26) Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor (02:58) Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (03:03) Stone Sky, Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (05:07) SFF Novellas from 2021 (Pt. 2) (16:27) And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (01:42) Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden (02:20) Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (01:45) The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler (02:32) The Giants of the Violet Sea by Eugenia Triantafyllou (05:45) Windup (00:56) Illustration generated by Wombo.art

David and Perry discuss recent awards and nominations, say a sad farewell to a friend, and talk about their recent reading, several items of which seem to deal with the loss of memory. General News (07:25) Hugo Nominees (03:57) Philip K. Dick Award (00:26) Compton Crook Award (00:28) 2022 Shadows Awards (00:58) BSFWA Awards (01:03) RIP Christine Ashby (02:30) What have we been reading? (01:13:48) The Last Woman in the World by Inga Simpson (06:07) The Spare Room by Helen Garner (10:37) Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore (04:53) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (08:22) Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (07:50) SF&F Novellas from 2021 (Pt. 1) (14:12) Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Garth Powell (03:26) Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor (02:58) Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (03:03) Stone Sky, Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (05:07) SF&F Novellas from 2021 (Pt. 2) (16:27) And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (01:42) Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden (02:20) Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (01:45) The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler (02:32) The Giants of the Violet Sea by Eugenia Triantafyllou (05:45) Windup (00:56) Click here for more info and indexes Illustration generated by Wombo.art

Discover On Gold Mountain, the true story of Fong See, a pioneer of Los Angeles' Chinatown who immigrated to the United States to find his fortune. Author and librettist Lisa See and composer Nathan Wang join Li Wei Yang, curator for the Pacific Rim Collections at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, soprano Shana Blake Hill, an original cast member of On Gold Mountain, and violinist Shelly Ren. This podcast was recorded on November 19, 2020. Come see On Gold Mountain May 5-15 in the newly-expanded Chinese gardens of The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens. Tickets are available now at Huntington.org.

Gold Mountain Mining Corp. is a BC based exploration and development company focused on the Elk Gold Project, a past producing mine located approximately 57 km from Merritt, BC. The claims and leases comprising the Elk Gold Project cover over 21,000 hectares offering both exploration upside and a clear path to near term production. The proposed multi phase production plan will see a Phase 1 – 19,000 Oz. production profile beginning in Q4 2021, which will fund our proposed ramp up to 65,000 Oz. by 2025. Concurrently with developing the mine, Management plans to continue drilling the nine known high grade mineralized zones, while continuing to explore other areas showing exciting potential.

Kevin Smith, CEO of Gold Mountain Mining (TSX:GMTN – OTCQB:GMTNF), joins us to discuss the successful graduation to a producing gold Company, as they have received their first payment for the first-month of ore delivery from the Elk Gold Project in British Columbia.

While Chinese men flocked to "Gold Mountain," many families in the "Celestial Empire" struggled for survival, and girls were the least valuable members.   Sometimes they were sold away, and ended up in the United States as prostitutes. But they found refuge in organizations like the Women's Occidental Board of Missions, led by Donaldina Cameron. Eventually, Chinese men were able to bring their wives, and San Francisco's Chinatown became a community of families. The demands of home life kept working-class wives very busy. But middle-class Chinese women formed societies that gave them the opportunity to not only socialize, but develop leadership skills, and advocate for issues that were important to them, including suffrage.

On Gold Mountain by Lisa See was published in 1995. It's a remarkable memoir that tells the story of one Chinese American family and their immigrant experience. The book is still making headlines today. It has been adapted into an opera with a new production planned for May, and it has also become a teaching resource. Lisa explains how the memoir has impacted her own family and influenced her career.

Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a poignant novel full of unforgettable characters that deal with issues of identity, belonging, racism, and sexual violence. Join Mirandi Riwoe as she shares a heart-breaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination and yearn for acceptance.

Leslie and Deborah Gilels discuss the real truths about marketing your Indie film from a PR Professional in Hollywood.  Now, not every Publicist is a marketing person and not every marketing person is a publicist.  In this episode, they also discuss promoting vs selling a film using a press release, niche marketing, social media, pitching to trades and much more.More About Deborah:Deborah Gilels has run a successful PR/Media Consulting company for the past 16 years, assisting writers, filmmakers, and actors with PR and Marketing activities including promoting feature films, shorts and documentaries, by way of public relations, marketing, project development, and distribution strategy, repping documentaries and feature films in the international marketplace.Among the films she has successfully launched are: Keiko the Untold Story of the Star of Free Willy, the award-winning documentary The War on Kids, and the Chazz Palminteri- Andie MacDowell family drama Mighty Fine for Lionsgate.  In the anime space, Gilels ran FYC campaigns for the award-winning features Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms and Liz and the Blue Bird (Satellite Award nominee), the short Lacrimosa and documentary The Gilligan Manifesto. She also was the lead publicist on Fathoms release of Hayao Miyazaki's Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro, the award-winning A Silent Voice, Millennium Actress and Sound! Euphonium.  She has also done publicity for anime series Lupin 3rd Part 4 on Adult Swim in May 2017, Lupin the 3rd Part 5, Megalobox on Crunchyroll and Cartoon Network and theatrical release for the feature Penguin Highway. Gilels has also led publicity for the DVD/VOD releases for several titles. Other recent films include:  The World Without You starring Radha Mitchell, PJ Byrne and James Tupper,  Hajji starring The Walking Dead's Ross Marquand, Pooling to Paradise, starring Taryn Manning and  Jonathan Lipnicki, Violet is Blue: A Tale of Gibbons and Guardians, Echoes From the Attic, Once is Enough and the LA Emmy winning documentary To Climb a Gold Mountain.Gilels has successfully promoted films in festivals such as Dances With Films, LA Femme International Film Festival, HollyShorts, Starz, Toronto International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, New Filmmakers (LA and NY), St. Louis, UN Film Festival, Heartland, Cannes, and has represented feature films and documentaries in markets such as AFM, Anime Expo, Berlin and MIP-TV. She executive produced the award-winning documentaries Bearing the Torch: Politics & the Games for ESPN/Hearst Entertainment.   Prior to that, as a development executive and producer Gilels collaborators included actors Robert Duvall, Jenna Malone, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Rachel Leigh Cook; writers and directors A. Scott Berg, Michael Hirst, and Paul Verhoeven. Companies and producers such as: Mike Macari, Disney, ESPN, Wind Dancer Films, Lionsgate and New Line Cinema/TV. She has also held executive positions at Fox, Warner Brothers TV and PFG Entertainment. In that capacity, the films  she has worked on as a development executive include: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead starring Christina Applegate and David Duchovny, Crossing the Mob starring Jason Bateman, Showdown in Little Tokyo starring the late Brandon Lee and Cary- Hiroyuki Tagawa, Penthathlon starring Dolph Lundgren, and A Slight Case of Murder starring William H. Macy.

Connor and Dylan are joined by Ali Ewoldt (Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables) and Jonny Lee Jr. (Gold Mountain, Miss Saigon). The second ever duo to join the twins! This episode is jam packed with incredible stories about Gold Mountain, the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Asian representation on stage and screen, Lea Michele stories, creating a new musical from the ground up, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the iconic impact of friend of the pod DeeDee Magno Hall, Ali being the first Asian American Christine in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, the influence of Les Mis and Miss Saigon, the Spring Awakening Reunion Benefit, and MORE. Learn about Gold Mountain here! Follow Ali on Twitter & InstagramFollow Jonny on InstagramFollow DRAMA. on Twitter & InstagramFollow Connor MacDowell on Twitter & InstagramFollow Dylan MacDowell on Twitter & InstagramEdited by DylanGet your DRAMA merch in time for the holidays HERE! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON HERE! Help us keep producing content for year 3.Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, rate us 5 stars, and leave a kind review! City, Asian representation on stage and screen, Lea Michele stories, creating a new musical from the ground up, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the iconic impact of friend of the pod DeeDee Magno Hall, Ali being the first Asian American Christine in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, the influence of Les Mis and Miss Saigon, the Spring Awakening Reunion Benefit, and MORE.Follow Ali on Twitter & InstagramFollow Jonny on InstagramFollow DRAMA. on Twitter & InstagramFollow Connor MacDowell on Twitter & InstagramFollow Dylan MacDowell on Twitter & InstagramEdited by DylanGet your DRAMA merch in time for the holidays HERE! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON HERE! Help us keep producing content for year 3.Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, rate us 5 stars, and leave a kind review!

We're doing our due diligence this week by supporting an Australian production, New Gold Mountain on SBS On Demand! One of us quite liked it and one of us quite didn't... bet you can't guess who. Links: - Matt Neal's article for the ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13/new-gold-mountain-review/100523478 - Luke Buckmaster's article: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/13/new-gold-mountain-review-lush-neo-western-takes-a-new-route-through-gold-rush-australia Check out Lonnie's other podcast: @imissyouman Hit us up on Twitter: @ionlylikeyoupod Email us: slpodcasting@gmail.com

Gold Mountain Mining Corp. is a BC based exploration and development company focused on the Elk Gold Project, a past producing mine located approximately 57 km from Merritt, BC. The claims and leases comprising the Elk Gold Project cover over 21,000 hectares offering both exploration upside and a clear path to near term production. The proposed multi phase production plan will see a Phase 1 – 19,000 Oz. production profile beginning in Q4 2021, which will fund our proposed ramp up to 65,000 Oz. by 2025. Concurrently with developing the mine, Management plans to continue drilling the nine known high grade mineralized zones, while continuing to explore other areas showing exciting potential.

What did our brothers think of New Gold Mountain? - The headman of the Chinese mining camp must maintain the delicate balance between Chinese and European diggers when a murdered European woman is found to have links to the Chinese community in the Ballarat Goldfields in 1855. - Black Rock Broadcasting A film and television podcast network for you, from us! - Twitter https://twitter.com/brbroadcast Facebook https://www.facebook.com/blackrockbroadcasting Instagram https://www.instagram.com/blackrockbroadcasting - Leave us a Review and Subscribe Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-brothers-one-pilot/id1531215703 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7jATgmn2s0SLAZMwdIqZ8W?si=QqUgRDocTg-WFQHxxndBeg Anchor https://anchor.fm/twobrothersonepilot Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/two%20brothers%20one%20pilot Breaker https://www.breaker.audio/two-brothers-one-pilot Overcast https://overcast.fm/itunes1531215703/two-brothers-one-pilot Pocket Casts https://pca.st/bzrxqvic Radio Public https://radiopublic.com/two-brothers-one-pilot-GMZZ1N - Outwit, Outplay, Outpodcast: A Survivor Podcast Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/outwit-outplay-outpodcast-a-survivor-podcast/id1586582699 - Spoiler Talk Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE5kl5HzbwbbJKSacm6cmfA?fbclid=IwAR0G6i3J7uqXIl5oE26QAPcm-bsttXbmbGVj9gLFgOhtPjyUdR0E2bTgaVc Podcast https://spoilertalk.podbean.com - #twobrothersonepilot #blackrockbroadcasting #spoilertalk #outwitoutplayoutpodcast

Wenlei Ma says Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a face-paced superhero blockbuster, the second season of Morning Wars is hard to resist and New Gold Mountain is riveting.

Ben is the founder of Gold Mountain Coffee Growers which connects coffee farmers with coffee roasters. He shares about the time, effort and process it takes to grow coffee. He started Gold Mountain Coffee Growers out of his passion to help end poverty for coffee farmers. Coffee growing is at risk of dying out and with it our morning cup of coffee. What do you want to learn more about with coffee? Share your ideas in the comments! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baristatalk/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baristatalk/support

New Gold Mountain, SBS' gold rush-era period drama, puts the Chinese-Australian experience front and centre. BW talks to series lead Yoson An, (Mulan, Creamerie) and director Corrie Chen about Chinese cowboys and finding dramatic gold in the history of 1850s Ballarat.Meanwhile, BL previews the new season of Succession, and finds the Roy family as deliciously vicious as ever. Stick around to find out what ‘Shiv all the way' means in his community.Also: BW is obsessed with a hot 939-year-old Korean goblin, why aren't you? William Shatner blasts off to the final frontier, and that Four Corners investigation on Sony Music Australia.Show notes:Facing the music: The Sony Music scandal: https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/facing-the-music:-the-sony-music-scandal/13579828New Gold Mountain: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13/new-gold-mountain-review/100523478Amanda Rosenberg in Vulture on Gong Yoo thirst: https://www.vulture.com/article/squid-game-gong-yoo-thirst-watch-next.htmlSuccession season 3: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/04/succession-season-three-review-as-glorious-and-furious-as-everJaguar Jonze asks ‘Who Died And Made You King' in scathing new song about industry abuse: https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/musicnews/jaguar-jonze-who-died-and-made-you-king-song-denis-handliln/13576612

New Gold Mountain, SBS' gold rush-era period drama, puts the Chinese-Australian experience front and centre. BW talks to series lead Yoson An, (Mulan, Creamerie) and director Corrie Chen about Chinese cowboys and finding dramatic gold in the history of 1850s Ballarat. Meanwhile, BL previews the new season of Succession, and finds the Roy family as deliciously vicious as ever. Stick around to find out what ‘Shiv all the way' means in his community. Also: BW is obsessed with a hot 939-year-old Korean goblin, why aren't you? William Shatner blasts off to the final frontier, and that Four Corners investigation on Sony Music Australia. Show notes: Facing the music: The Sony Music scandal: https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/facing-the-music:-the-sony-music-scandal/13579828 New Gold Mountain: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13/new-gold-mountain-review/100523478 Amanda Rosenberg in Vulture on Gong Yoo thirst: https://www.vulture.com/article/squid-game-gong-yoo-thirst-watch-next.html Succession season 3: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/04/succession-season-three-review-as-glorious-and-furious-as-ever Jaguar Jonze asks ‘Who Died And Made You King' in scathing new song about industry abuse: https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/musicnews/jaguar-jonze-who-died-and-made-you-king-song-denis-handliln/13576612

By some lights, this episode is what Blood on Gold Mountain is all about. The Massacre.  This episode has been very difficult in every way. How do you make something good or beautiful out of a mass murder? How do you take the experience of being a perpetual foreigner, persecuted and exploited, mocked and belittled, and turn it into something redemptive?  This episode has taught me the answer: You don't. You just do what you have to do. This episode is about love, and loss. It's about the people who have everything torn away by the casual cruelty of others, the people who step outside their own front door and find themselves at the end of a noose. Certainly, it's about the victims of the 1871 massacre, but the fate of these characters is not unique. It's about everyone who has suffered in the same or similar situations, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Who knows which of us will join that company? This episode is an ode to those who do, and to those they leave behind. It is an act of grieving, and of validation, through which we acknowledge that though their fate is hideous, these people are fundamentally no different from you or I. It is also an act of sacrifice. I have chosen to put a significant amount of life energy, which we can call Qi, and spirit, which we can call Shen into this story. It has also cost me in fundamental essence, Jing, which I would have preferred to keep, and which cannot be recovered once lost. We must give of ourselves to those who came before us, because we are one with them. They and We belong to each other. Our bond goes far beyond the scope of mere genetic kinship. We and They are different cells in the same creature, different nodes in a vast, four-or-more-dimensional network of interconnected consciousness. Our ways, which we take for granted, they established and invented. Our hopes and dreams would not be possible without their hopes and dreams, which were sometimes fulfilled, and sometimes perished with them in dust and despair. When Isaac Newton said he stood on the shoulders of giants, he was referring to a concrete (if technically metaphysical) reality, which is the underpinning principle of what the Gwailo call Ancestor Worship. I love these characters. They are strangely real in their fictionalized incarnation, and I hope that those of you who have stuck with this story to the end feel the same way. They are historical figures, resurrected from the traces they left behind, but they are also people I know and love; spirits that used me as a stepping stone on their way to their new homes in this story. Some of them used some of you as stepping stones before they reached me. The story is told, and will be told again and again. The energy, which has been pressurized under the weight of broadly enforced oblivion for 150 years has been released, at least in part. This is how we balance the scales that abide in our justice-loving hearts despite the injustice of reality. This is how we reckon the cost of human evil. By giving of ourselves, whatever it takes. With love. Thank you all for being a part of this process. I hope it has done something for you, whatever that something may be. We have all given a long-awaited gift to these spirits, and they will not forget us. In our time of need, in our darkest hour, they will be there to help us, to hold us, and to guide us either back to safety, or onward to the other side. They will be there for you. I have been with them, spoken to them, given to them what I had to give. You have given them your attention, your sympathy, and, hopefully, your love. They are with you now, waiting in the darkness, and they will be there for you when you call. I promise. Micah Huang If you have questions, thoughts, your own family stories, or historical context to share, please send us a message at @bloodongoldmountain on http://www.facebook.com/bloodongoldmountain (Facebook) or http://www.instagram.com/bloodongoldmountain (Instagram). ...

In this episode, we are introduced to Christianity through the eyes of Yut-Ho's Gwailo marriage to Lee Yong in a Christian church. Can you imagine being married in the holy place of a foreign religion without having any context for the iconography all around you?  Understandably, Yut Ho  is horrified by the sight of Jesus nailed to the cross, “his head hanging down in an attitude of infinite pain and weariness.”  She understands the pendant cross hanging from his neck as the Chinese symbol for the number ten. And in Mother Mary, she sees Guan Yin, goddess of mercy and serenity. By this connection, she is deeply comforted and feels protected to continue with the marriage. For further reading on the connection between Guan Yin and Mary, read https://www.jstor.org/stable/1389874?read-now=1&seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents (The Bodhisattva Guanyin and Virgin Mary).  In late 1800s California, only Gwailo court-sanctioned marriages were seen as legitimate in the eyes of the law. Chinese “ritual” marriages were not readily acknowledged, and this was the very loop-hole that Yo-Hing used against Sam Yuen to lawfully kidnap Yut-Ho.  After their escape, Yut Ho and Lee Yong take refuge at the residence of Dr. Tong and his wife Tong You. Yut Ho is shocked to see Tong You's bound feet, or as she calls them, her Lotus feet.  Foot binding originated in China during the 10th century and continued through the start of The People's Republic of China in 1949 (https://www.britannica.com/science/footbinding (Footbinding, Encyclopedia Britannica)). It served as a right of passage for young women and conveyed status.  In Western culture, foot-binding is understood as an oppressive practice, which confined Chinese women to lives of immobility and great suffering. We hear stories of young girls being forced to bind their feet, just as they are forced into being subservient to men. Wang Ping's eye-opening book, “Aching for Beauty,” paints a much more complex picture. She describes her own childhood desire to bind her feet as being intricately tied to her close female relationships. She explores the connection between pain and beauty that resurfaces in myriad ways across many cultures.  After all, it is socially celebrated for Western women to  cut  their bodies for breast implants, genital reconstructive surgery, and nose jobs, just to name a few. While the ideal of beauty changes, the insistence on painfully altering the female form to fit a more perfect image of beauty resurfaces again and again.  In our story, Yut Ho learns that Tong You bound her feet by choice, to gain social status. Born into a low class family, Tong You was mesmerized by the luxuries of the upper class. Binding her feet brought her a path to a more luxurious existence, and for her, it was worth the sacrifice.  If you have questions, thoughts, your own family stories, or historical context to share, please send us a message at @bloodongoldmountain on http://www.facebook.com/bloodongoldmountain (Facebook) or http://www.instagram.com/bloodongoldmountain (Instagram).  ----- Blood on Gold Mountain is brought to you by https://services.claremont.edu/holmes-endowment/ (The Holmes Performing Arts Fund of The Claremont Colleges), https://www.pomona.edu/administration/pacific-basin-institute (The Pacific Basin Institute of Pomona College), https://www.scrippscollege.edu/offices/officesservices/publicevents (The Office of Public Events and Community Programs at Scripps College), https://www.scrippscollege.edu/departments/music (The Scripps College Music Department),  https://necmusic.edu/em (The Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department at The New England Conservatory), and https://www.patreon.com/bloodongoldmountain (our Patreon patrons).  Blood on Gold Mountain is written and produced by Yan-Jie Micah Huang, narrated by Hao Huang, introduced by Emma Gies, and features music composed by Micah Huang and...

John Jung is an author, psychology professor, and historian. His works include: Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South, which describes living in the South during the Jim Crow era; Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain, a social history of the important role that these businesses that once dotted the landscape held for the economic survival of Chinese immigrants; Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers, which examines the similar role of this family occupation for Chinese in the delta; Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants; and A Chinese American Odyssey, a writing memoir about the process and experience of how he, as a psychology professor, reinvented himself in retirement to become a public historian of Chinese in America. In this episode, John talks about growing up Chinese American in the Deep South and covers the history of Chinese Americans from 1940s until today. He touches upon the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, paper identities, the model minority myth, hate crimes committed against Asian Americans, and the growth of Asian American activism.

Sam Yuen Sam Yuen is one of the larger-than-life characters that drive the historical narrative of the LA Chinatown massacre. Historical sources paint a picture of a laconic, stoic-minded business leader whose traditional methods and lack of adaptability made him and his company vulnerable to disruption.  Sam Yuen was the leader of a conservative faction who thought that the Chinese community should restrict its contact with outsiders as much as possible. They were willing to provide services to wealthy non-Chinese residents of the surrounding area, but they did not go into business with people of different backgrounds. It was this attitude against which the upstart, Yo Hing was rebelling when he split off from the original Sze Yup company. By collaborating with wealthier and more influential Anglo and Latino business partners, Yo Hing aimed to fundamentally change the structure of Chinatown's economic system. Traditionalists like Sam Yuen saw this as excessively risky. Tying up their money in joint ventures with “Gwailo,” who could turn on them at any moment was a grave cause for concern among the traditionalists, who were badly traumatized by the ethnic and political conflicts which had torn apart Qing Dynasty China.  Though he rarely spoke to the press, Sam Yuen was influential enough that certain aspects of his personality come down to us. He was indicted for fist fighting with Yo Hing on multiple occasions, though other than that, his criminal record seems to have been relatively clean. In one particularly famous incident, Sam Yuen managed to get several of Yo Hing's associates jailed for the egregious maltreatment of an enslaved Chinese prostitute, who was working for them. Yo Hing's actions in the case of Yut Ho and Lee Yong were probably partially motivated by a desire to retaliate.  Sam Yuen's most famous quotation was given in an interview with the Los Angeles Star newspaper: “That brave fellow Yo Hing will be killed by those he has insulted and maligned.” Sam Yuen endeavored to make good on this public threat. Clearly, he was not averse to using force or violence in order to get his way. He was also a dangerous man with a six-shooter, as we shall see. Information about the historical Sam Yuen can be found in Scott Zsech's wonderful book, The Chinatown War, which also contains a fantastic bibliography that can be used to locate primary sources.  Micah's personal spin on Sam Yuen is to play up certain aspects of a socially conservative strain, which exists in Chinese culture. This style of relating to the world is a vestige of a militaristic outlook, which was instrumental in securing and retaining power under feudal, imperial rule. Like American masculine culture of the early 20th century, Qing dynasty “conservatives” were preoccupied with physical and mental strength above all things. This preoccupation was paired with a meritocratic belief that the strongest had a natural right to rule over everybody else. In China, this type of outlook was severely impacted by contact with the West, whose superior military technology took away the title of strongest from the warrior class who had held it for millennia. This led to an obtusely anachronistic pride in hand-to-hand fighting skills, which persists to this day as a negative stereotype about Chinese and East Asian men. For this reason, Micah wrote Sam Yuen as a practitioner of external martial arts in Blood on Gold Mountain.  If you have questions, thoughts, your own family stories, or historical context to share, please send us a message at @bloodongoldmountain on http://www.facebook.com/bloodongoldmountain (Facebook) or http://www.instagram.com/bloodongoldmountain (Instagram).  ----- Blood on Gold Mountain is brought to you by https://services.claremont.edu/holmes-endowment/ (The Holmes Performing Arts Fund of The Claremont Colleges), https://www.pomona.edu/administration/pacific-basin-institute (The Pacific Basin Institute of...

No one knows just how the historical Yut Ho and Lee Yong met. Perhaps, as in our story, it was in the course of their daily routines. Yut Ho would almost certainly have lived a secluded life with her new husband. In Chinese immigrant society, most women worked alongside their menfolk. As a wealthy married woman Yut Ho had the uncommon luxury of staying home, but in practice, that luxury probably felt like a gilded cage. Chinatown was the most violent part of a violent, dangerous town, and Hing Sing's close relationship with Sam Yuen meant that Yut Ho was automatically a target for Yo Hing's machinations.  The politics of LA Chinatown were much as Lee Yong describes them in this episode. I have changed a couple of names for clarity: After the split in the Sze Yup Company, Sam Yuen's faction did not actually retain the original company's name. They started calling themselves the Nin Yung company- I thought it was too confusing with all the names changing, but I did decide to call Sam Yuen's store Nin Yung (It was actually called Wing Chung) because of the importance of that name in the history.   As Lee Yong tells Yut HO in the story, Yo Hing's company was really called the Hong Chow Tong. He was popular and charismatic, with a knack for getting out of trouble. The piece about Opium is my own invention, though it is not historically improbable. Opium was accessible to Chinese immigrants, who used it to varying degrees. It would not be much of a stretch for an enterprising polyglot like Yo Hing to open a line of business selling it to western doctors; this was Civil War era medicine, and painkillers were essential to the primitive, unsanitary and invasive practices of frontier medical men.  Yut Ho mentioned the (first) Opium War in Episode 2 because it was a direct cause of the Taiping rebellion. Though less bloody than the domestic conflicts that followed, the Opium war was the tipping point after which the Qing government descended into chaos. The fact that China was too large and too rich in human and natural resources to make outright conquest practical means that the impact of Colonial forays such as the Opium wars is often understated in the west. The period following the British wars is one of the most violent and tragic epochs in human history; Fighting continued in China until the communist victory in 1949, and was followed by the terrible famines of the Great Leap Forward, and the trauma of the cultural revolution. All told, well over 100 million people lost their lives during the collapse of Imperial China-nearly 20 times the number killed in the Holocaust or (estimated number) transatlantic slave trade.  To this day, many Chinese and Chinese Americans maintain a negative view of drugs, and opiates in particular because of the consequences of the very first Drug War: The one where the British told China to “Just Say Yes.” In the Story, Sam Yuen's decision to sell Opium in Chinatown is indicative of his hyper-competitive, myopic mindset. His disregard of Chinatown and its people would ultimately cost him his position as Company Headman, as well as causing the spillage of a large quantity of other people's blood.  For more in-depth on LA Chinatown and the causes of migration, check out Scott Zesch's thoroughly researched book, The Chinatown War. If you have questions, thoughts, your own family stories, or historical context to share, please send us a message at @bloodongoldmountain on http://www.facebook.com/bloodongoldmountain (Facebook) or http://www.instagram.com/bloodongoldmountain (Instagram).  ----- Blood on Gold Mountain is brought to you by https://services.claremont.edu/holmes-endowment/ (The Holmes Performing Arts Fund of The Claremont Colleges), https://www.pomona.edu/administration/pacific-basin-institute (The Pacific Basin Institute of Pomona College), https://www.scrippscollege.edu/offices/officesservices/publicevents (The Office of Public Events and Community...

How do we understand our contemporary politics of race in historical, economical, and political context? How do we make sense of the Chinese Exclusion acts and ongoing racial discrimination? In Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (HMH, 2019), Dr. Gordon H. Chang recovers the history of how thousands of immigrants from southern China came to work on the Transcontinental Railroad, at the time an essential American infrastructure and the second largest construction project in the world after the Suez Canal. Despite their contribution (they constituted 90% of the Central Pacific Railroad work force), Chinese workers were marginalized politically, socially, and economically in their time -- and in subsequent treatments of American labor and immigration history. But how to recount marginalization without objectifying the Chinese who built the railroads? Chang masterfully presents the story of 20,000 workers as lived experience. The Chinese are presented “not as voiceless objects of interest or docile human tools, but as vital, living, and feeling human beings who made history.” American history -- particularly our understanding of labor, immigration, and racism -- is incomplete without focusing on the Railroad Chinese. The book won The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Award for Literature and The Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award. Dr. Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University (the university founded by Leland Stanford, head of the Central Pacific Railroad). He serves as Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education co-directs the Chinese Railroad Workers in North American Project at Stanford. Dr. Chang is the author of Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with China (Harvard University Press, 2015) and co-editor of The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Stanford University Press 2019) with Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Daniella Campos assisted with this podcast. Susan Liebell is an associate professor of political science at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Why Diehard Originalists Aren't Really Originalists recently appeared in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage and “Retreat from the Rule of Law: Locke and the Perils of Stand Your Ground” was published in the Journal of Politics (July 2020). Email her comments at sliebell@sju.edu or tweet to @SusanLiebell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An interview with Raquel Rivera, award-winning author of five books for young readers, including Tuk and the Whale and Orphan Ahwak. Hear about her interest in fairy tales, her advice for creating tension-filled scenes, and her childhood fear of the toilet witch. 25 minutes. All ages. A full transcript is available at CabinTales.ca. Show Notes [0:00] Intro [1:10] Interview with Raquel Rivera CA: Have you ever written a story based on the news or a historical incident? RR: All of my historic books are thoroughly researched. So definitely with the last book, Yippee's Gold Mountain, before I could even figure out the plotting, I had to do so much research to understand what sort of things might happen to him. …History, I find, is tremendously inspiring, whereas the present day for me it's harder for me to come up with plot points. … [2:05] CA:... Have you ever riffed off a fairy tale or another story? RR: Not consciously but it's a really good idea. …  I've been doing a lot of reading actually over this pandemic time about scholars' thinking on fairy tales and stuff like that. And women's roles in fairy tales... and how we can make them new for ourselves. [3:45] CA:… Has an object ever figured prominently in one of your works? RR: Yes. In Tuk and the Whale, my book is talking about two different ways of seeing the world….there's a world of things and then there's a world of knowledge. … when you have a European culture coming over, what is so very impressive that they have is things. … Their knowledge is -- it's not that impressive, right? … But look at the stuff that they've got! …. So in that story, yes, I think there was a lot about objects. [5:40]  CA: Do you have a favorite plot twist? RR: … I was so excited by my plot twist for Yippee's Gold Mountain… I realized this character needs to be speaking in the first person because I have no other way of leaving them gender neutral. … I wanted their gender to be undetermined…Then halfway through the book, there's this disclosure. …. And the idea is for the reader to ask themselves whether they made any assumptions up until that point when the gender is revealed. ….   [7:20] CA: And do you have any favorite techniques either that you use or that you can recommend to young writers for building tension? RR: …. So the question is: What's going to happen? Oh my God. Right? So, you need to slow down the lead-up to the answer. And that's the only way to build the tension. And that would be picking out certain kind of key details to a situation. … Just the fewest most key details. … all the details to make it happen can also ruin your suspense. … So it's kind of a balancing act… [8:50] CA: … Do you tend as a writer to change the beginning of your story after you've completed it, or do you tend to keep your beginnings? RR: Half and half. … I try to think of things in terms of scenes. … Each scene begins with like the biggest grab that you can possibly find in that scenario. Because we can always go back and explain how we got there in the scene. [10:00] CA:. Do you have any advice for young writers on how to begin a story? RR: If you have an idea, you're 100% on the road there. Just write down the idea. … Don't worry about how it's going to look. Don't worry about how it's going to sound. …. But first just get out that like embarrassing awkward idea, and later on you can make it as perfect as you like. [11:25] CA: And do you have any advice on ending stories? What kind of ending do you like? RR: I have a great deal of respect for sad endings if they're done well… For me personally, the amount of emotional investment in a story is too much. Like I don't want to spend three years with something that ends badly. … I think that as somebody who's writing for young people, … we want to train ourselves to be optimists. We want to train ourselves to be resilient. Because that's how we get through life. …. But never a joyful happy-ever-after ending because I don't buy those either. It's a way that my characters can feel stronger for having been through what they've been through… [13:20] CA: Do you have a favorite setting from fiction? RR: For reading, I really enjoy historic settings because it's fascinating to me how we used to be, the material of our lives, the classic story that's running through, the humanity that's running through, just fascinating to me. [13:40] CA: And do you have some favorite fictional characters? RR: I love Meg from A Wrinkle in Time. …. Of course everybody likes Anne, of Anne of Green Gables. … I liked following characters when I was little. [14:15] CA: And are there any setting or character exercises that you would recommend to young writers? RR: … one interesting thing to do is to pick a well-known setting – that might be as simple as your bedroom or … the court where you play basketball … and start describing it in as much detail as you can. … do they create a sense of something? A sense of foreboding, a sense of nostalgia… What kind of mood have I created with that? And what maybe can be useful in another context? [15:15] CA: Do you have a favorite point of view to write from? RR:  I'm very much stuck on the inside of a character. … So what I was trying to do with my present draft was take the position of the narrator who's on the outside… I wanted a narrator who was their own voice, the Godlike voice. It's just not as easy for me. … [16:15] CA: And did you tell stories around a campfire as a kid? RR: Not really, no. Maybe that's why I have such a crappy plot skill. I did a ton of reading. … [17:15] CA: And do you have any favorite scary stories or movies? RR: I'm not a big fan of scary things, but Red Dragon…and there's a scary movie Hellraiser. … I don't know what it was about those two. … there did seem to be underlying it some very kind of meaningful ideas …. I think that it's also possible to insert tremendously scary things inside of non-scary stories, and that's quite bearable for me, too. Again, so long as I can skim through it or step back to the, say the doorway, and watch my TV from a very very very great distance.   [19:30] CA:. And do you have any phobias? RR: I'm tremendously tense in deep water. I don't like things coming up at me from my feet… I remember in younger years I was terrified of sharks. … [20:05] CA: And what do you think is scarier: humans or monsters? RR: … when I was a kid … monsters were definitely high on my list of scarier. … There was a toilet witch, for example. …. I created a story where if I flush the toilet, if I ran fast as I could and jumped into my bed before the noise of the toilet stops, then I would be safe from the toilet witch… nowadays I would say that people really don't scare me that much at all…, the monsters that come up from the deep and nibble on your toes? They're terrifying. [21:45] Raquel Rivera introduces herself RR: My name is Raquel Rivera. I'm a writer, artist and a performer. I've been based in Montreal since 1999. And since moving here I've written and published five books for children and young people. In addition to that, I like to do artwork, I like to do acrobatics, and I like to do drumming with a batu cada group, which means it's like a drum orchestra. We practice a couple of times a week and we perform – well, less now, but we used to perform a great deal around the city and around Quebec. That pretty much sums me up, I guess. [22:45] Find out more about Raquel Rivera You can hear more creative writing advice from Raquel Rivera on Cabin Tales Episode 3.5: “Author Interviews about Inspiration”; on Episode 4.5: “Author Interviews about Plotting”; and on Episode 8, “The Never-ending Story,” about revision. You can find out more about Raquel Rivera and her books from her website at RaquelRiveraWasHere.com. There you'll find videos, photos, and readalouds. [24:55] Thanks and coming up on the podcast I'll be back next week with leftovers from my interview with Robin Stevenson, BC author for all ages. Thanks for listening. Credits Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo (Standard license for online use). Host: Catherine Austen writes books for children, short stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Visit her at www.catherineausten.com. Guest Author: Photo by Katya Konioukhova Raquel Rivera is a writer, artist and performer based in Montreal. She has published five books for young readers. She also writes about books for Constellations, a library and online database of quality children's literature, for use by teachers, librarians, and the public. Visit her online at www.raquelriverawashere.com.  

This episode introduces some key players in the story of the Chinatown Massacre, and gives some background about the social and political conditions for Chinese Immigrants in Wild-West California. Yut Ho and Ah Choy are based on historical figures. For more information about them, a great resource to check out is https://amzn.to/3qEyqsj (“The Chinatown War,” by Scott Zesch), who has collected and attempted to decode a number of primary sources contemporary with the events in this story. Accounts of the lives of Chinese miners are scarce and unreliable. The  closest thing we have to a primary source (in English) is http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/chinhate.html (this stunningly racist essay) by author Henry Kitteridge Norton, published in 1924 and transcribed by the San Francisco Museum: This and other similar sources supplied the material on the lives of Chinese miners. Historically, no murders of Whites by Chinese immigrants were recorded...until the day of the massacre, as we shall see. However, that doesn't mean it didn't happen. A wonderful fictional account of Chinese miners can be found in the Ken Liu story “All The Flavors,” published in http://giganotosaurus.org/2012/02/01/all-the-flavors/ (“The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories” (2016) and available online for free). Prostitution was actually much less prevalent in Chinatowns across California than politicians made it out to be in the late 1800's. However, it was a constant danger for those few young women who made it through immigration. The old woman from the Huiguan (“benevolent association” in Cantonese) is fictional, but I have seen the Mahjong Halls of San Francisco Chinatown, and received the brutal solicitations for prostitution that hound young Asians of many genders across America, to this day. The Characters are presented as speaking in Cantonese, rendered as an accessible, 20th-century English familiar to the listening public. So much for Historical Verisimilitude. Here is a basic lexicon for transliterated terms used in the story: Gwailo: Translating as something like “ghost” or “foreign ghost,” it refers to western would-be-colonizers in China. Also used in the US, by such figures as that APB-busting superhero, Ghostface Killa. Mei: a common Chinese diminutive for younger sister Huiguan: A communal association designed to help get new immigrants on their feet. Often possessed of premises; a kind of outside-the-law town hall. If you have questions, thoughts, your own family stories, or historical context to share, please send us a message at @bloodongoldmountain on http://www.facebook.com/bloodongoldmountain (Facebook) or http://www.instagram.com/bloodongoldmountain (Instagram).  ----- Blood on Gold Mountain is brought to you by https://services.claremont.edu/holmes-endowment/ (The Holmes Performing Arts Fund of The Claremont Colleges), https://www.pomona.edu/administration/pacific-basin-institute (The Pacific Basin Institute of Pomona College), https://www.scrippscollege.edu/offices/officesservices/publicevents (The Office of Public Events and Community Programs at Scripps College), https://www.scrippscollege.edu/departments/music (The Scripps College Music Department), and https://necmusic.edu/em (The Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department at The New England Conservatory).  Blood on Gold Mountain was written and produced by Yan-Jie Micah Huang, narrated by Hao Huang, introduced by Emma Gies, and features music composed by Micah Huang and performed by Micah Huang and Emma Gies. A special thanks to https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilakolesaire/ (Sheila Kolesaire) for her critical PR guidance and to https://twitter.com/evoterra (Evo Terra) from https://simpler.media (Simpler Media Productions) for his immense expertise and support.  ----- More details at http://bloodongoldmountain.com (bloodongoldmountain.com) Connect with us on http://www.facebook.com/bloodongoldmountain (Facebook) and...

Los Angeles, 1871, was the murder capital of the Wild West, and nowhere was wilder or more dangerous than Chinatown.  Blood on Gold Mountain is an original storytelling podcast, which follows the journey of Yut-Ho, a young woman who arrives in LA as a refugee, only to become embroiled in a love intrigue, a gang war, and one of the deadliest race riots in American history.  Set in a vivid Western landscape and based on true events, Blood on Gold Mountain brings to life this little-known chapter of history, when the six-gun was the only law on the dusty streets of LA.   Blood on Gold Mountain is brought to you by The Holmes Performing Arts Fund of The Claremont Colleges, The Pacific Basin Institute of Pomona College, The Public Events Office at Scripps College, The Scripps College Music Department, and The Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department at The New England Conservatory. Blood on Gold Mountain was written and produced by Yan-Jie Micah Huang, narrated by Hao Huang, introduced by Emma Gies, and features music composed by Micah Huang and performed by Micah Huang and Emma Gies. A special thanks to https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilakolesaire/ (Sheila Kolesaire) for her critical PR guidance and to https://twitter.com/evoterra (Evo Terra) from https://simpler.media/ (Simpler Media Productions) for his immense expertise and support. 

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