The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung — Laurence Yep

July 18

...the American miners blamed us for everything that had gone wrong in their lives -- from lower wages to rain and warts. A month before I came, in other districts, the Americans threw the Chinese out. And some of the American miners here want to do the same thing.

Uncle says that this is proof that gold is a curse. It twists people's minds and makes them act like beasts.

I am beginning to think Uncle is right.

I feel like shivering, but not from the cold.

America is so lovely -- and yet so frightening.