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

by Guenter B. Risse

Book Overview

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"