Race, law, and "the Chinese puzzle" in imperial Britain
By: Sascha Auerbach.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Chinese -- Great Britain -- History; Chinese -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century; China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Chinese labour" and the imperial dimensions of British racial discourse; title: The dragon and Saint George, 1910-1914; title: "Most insidious is the oriental in the West": Chinese and Britons in wartime London; title: East (End) meets West (End); title: "This plague spot of the metropolis," 1919-1921; title: Epilogue : the ghosts of Chinatown.