| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3 | The History Cooperative

Ethnic Oasis: The Chinese in the Black Hills. By Liping Zhu and Rose Estep Fosha, with essays by Donald L. Hardesty and A. Dudley Gardner. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2004. 100 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $15.95, paper.)
Ethnic Oasis reprints the major contents of South Dakota History, vol. 33, no. 4, winter 2003, now sold out. There are four papers in three sections. The Background contains "Ethnic Oasis: Chinese Immigrants in the Frontier Black Hills," by Liping Zhu. The Excavations presents "The Archaeology of Deadwood's Chinatown: A Prologue," by Rose Estep Fosha. Elsewhere in the West contains "Archaeology and the Chinese Experience in Nevada," by Donald L. Hardesty and "The Chinese in Wyoming: Life in the Core and Peripheral Communities," by A. Dudley Gardner.	1
Zhu discusses the history of the Chinese in South Dakota's Black Hills. They came for mining opportunities and stayed for entrepreneurial reasons. Although few in number, 221 in the 1880 census, they filled necessary social and economic niches, provided support services to Chinese and non-Chinese alike, and functioned successfully in many fields (p. 19). Despite anti-Chinese prejudice in Deadwood and elsewhere, the Chinese were not merely passive victims of racist oppression; some used litigation and civil disobedience to protest injustices.	. . .

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