Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown

by Guenter B. Risse

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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.

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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1421405105

ISBN13:9781421405100

Release Date:April 2012

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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