Congratulations, Seth, on embarking on this interesting documentary film project. My own interest has been in documenting the movement of Chinese in the 19th century to another part of the New Word, namely Guyana. There were 13,541 Chinese immigrants who arrived in 39 ships between 1853 and 1879. A majority of the descendants of these early immigrants now live in the U.S. and Canada. My own project does not address your needs directly but there are some elements that overlap. The Chinese emigrants to California were also candidates for the canefields of Guyana (then British Guiana) although the glitter of gold in Gold Mountain (San Francisco) would have been more attractive than the $4 per month received as indentured laborers in Guyana. After the anti-Chinese sentiment appeared in the U.S. West Coast the government of British Guiana passed a resolution in May 1876 to permit communication with any European House engaged in the transportation of Chinese requesting them to divert the Chinese to British Guiana because of the restriction placed on Chinese landing in the U.S. The planters were also willing to send a representative to California to see if some Chinese could be induced to go to British Guiana and to make arrangements for their deliverance. However, the scheme did not come to fruition and it appears that the oppressed Chinese in California were willing to stick it out through the hard times rather than migrate to another fate. A summary of my work can be seen at my website: http://CGRoots.tripod.com All the best, Trev Sue-A-Quan Vancouver, Canada