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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-03-14
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1421405105
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown pdf
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When health officials in San Francisco discovered bubonic plague in their city’s Chinatown in 1900, they responded with intrusive, controlling, and arbitrary measures that touched off a sociocultural conflict still relevant today. Guenter B. Risse’s history of an epidemic is the first to incorporate the voices of those living in Chinatown at the time, including the desperately ill Wong Chut King, believed to be the first person infected.Lasting until 1904, the plague in San Francisco's Chinatown reignited racial prejudices, renewed efforts to remove the Chinese from their district, and created new tensions among local, state, and federal public health officials quarreling over the presence of the deadly disease. Risse's rich, nuanced narrative of the event draws from a variety of sources, including Chinese-language reports and accounts. He addresses the ecology of Chinatown, the approaches taken by Chinese and Western medical practitioners, and the effects of quarantine plans on Ch Download Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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