Most of these contractors were recruited from the provinces of Chihli (Zhili), Shantung (Shandong) and Honan (Henan) in China.[4]:105 They were repatriated after 1910,[1][9] because of strong White opposition to their presence, similar to anti-Asian sentiments in the western United States, particularly California at the same time.[10] It is a myth that the contracted miners brought into South Afri