Original sentence: At Barkerville, in the Cariboo, over half the town's population of up to 20,000 was estimated to be Chinese, and several other towns including Richfield, Stanley, Van Winkle, Quesnellemouthe (modern Quesnel), Antler, Quesnelle Forks and Lillooet had significant Chinatowns (Lillooet's lasting until the 1930s) and there no shortage of successful Chinese miners
Edited sentence: At Barkerville, in the Cariboo, over half the town's population of up to 20,000 was estimated to be Chinese, and several other towns including Richfield, Stanley, Van Winkle, Quesnellemouthe (modern Quesnel), Antler, Quesnelle Forks and Lillooet had significant Chinatowns (Lillooet's lasting until the 1930s) and there no shortage of successful Chinese miners despite politicized claims that the Chinese were hard-done by and mistreated by white miners, which was not actually the case