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By Elyse Medlin
Daily Forty-Niner
Nestled in a woodsy area of Bixby Knolls,
the Rancho Los Cerritos Historical Site set the stage for a brilliant performance
by distinguished scholar and actor Charlie Chin.
Chin portrayed Yee Fun Cheung, a Chinese
herbalist who immigrated to California during the Gold Rush Era.
Lured by the prospects of gold, Cheung became a miner and labored tirelessly
for his small fortune.
The historical character Cheung came alive
as Chin narrated the events that preceded the Chinese immigration of the
mid-1900s.
Long Beach resident Roberta Maxwell said
she was impressed by the performance.
"I thought it was absolutely incredible,"
she said. "What a privilege to have him (Chin) here."
"His portrayal was so authentic," Lynn
Brandt of Long Beach said.
Plagued by diseases such as cholera, scurvy,
rheumatism and dysentery, as well as suffering the effects of fatigue and
poor diet, the miners turned to Cheung for Chinese herbal remedies, Chin
said.
Cheung eventually saw a market for his
services as a town doctor and opened a shop in Gold Country.
He treated the Chinese, who were familiar
with his remedies from their homeland China, as well as non-Chinese patients
who sought his herbal concoctions as the only means of medical treatment
in the boom towns. |
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