The Californian gold rush was in decline in the 1850s and had been known as the Old Gold Mountain, which led the Chinese to name the Australian gold rush, New Gold Mountain. This is how the series ...

Ms Chen says stories of Chinese miners during the Australian gold rush have long been told, but rarely from a Chinese perspective. So when the opportunity came up to direct the historical drama ...

CANBERRA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government has nominated the goldfields in the country's southeast for World Heritage status. Tanya Plibersek, minister for the Environment and Water, on ...

SYDNEY -- The mineral-rich sands beneath the farmland of Victoria are capturing attention from Australian miners and ...

What were conditions like on the gold-farms and fields? How did the rush impact Australia’s First Nations People? And in what ways did it shape the country? This is a Short History Of The ...

Originally from Guangdong, the man one newspaper called a "petty despot" had sailed to San Francisco on a Chinese junk just before the gold rush, when he was approximately 20 years old.

Andrew Liu talks to Tom about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa, the racial stereotypes about them promoted by local politicians, and their role ...