The long-term and short-term causes of anti-Chinese riots on the gold fields in Australia in 1850's and 1860's?

What were the long-term and short-term causes of anti-Chinese riots on the gold fields in Australia in 1850's and 1860's? What do these incidents reveal about the gold fields' population and the colonial governments? The Chinese began to arrive in the gold fields in large numbers during the years 1955-56 and by 1957 "the Europeans both in the towns and on the gold fields had become afraid of the Chinese." What followed was a number of …

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