1. Unfortunately, the sources do not include views of the Chinese themselves; apparently no records or letters by Chinese are extant. Sandmeyer,Anti-Chinese Movement, 4. For an examination of the economic role of the Chinese in California based on manuscript census material, see Ping Chiu,Chinese Labor in California, 1850–1880: An Economic Study(Madison, Wisconsin, 1967).
2. Ninth Census(Washington, 1872), 2, 663.
3. Victor G. and Brett de Bary Lee,Longtime Californ’(New York, 1972), 18.