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The novel portrays 17000-odd Chinese gold-diggers, including only one woman, who landed in Robe, South Australia, in the mid-1850s, in order to avoid the head tax charged them by the Victorian government, and travelled overland for more than 500 kilometres to the Victorian goldfields.
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English translation of the title: Land of Gold Diggers
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