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That Chink at Golden Gulch
UNITED STATES · 1910

That Chink at Golden Gulch

D.W. Griffith
Chinese immigration cultural identity discrimination frontier justice forbidden romance
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Synopsis

In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in a California mining town, Charlie is tormented by local men but is finally befriended by a young woman and her cowboy sweetheart. One of Charlie’s tormentors is a well-dressed idler and, secretly, a bandit who robs the mail. The cowboy and the bandit

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