Abstract
In 1854 more than 700 Chinese laborers were brought to Panama to help build the Panama Railway across the Isthmus. Adaptation problems involving opium, destitution and suicide quickly became manifest This situation is compared with that of Chinese coolie labor in other areas of the New World, with particular emphasis on the analysis of suicide.
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