Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown
By: Guenter B. Risse
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781421405100; 9781421405537
Subjects: Asian Americans; Prejudice; Disease Outbreaks; History, 20th Century; Plague; Socioeconomic Factors; History
Description: "By probing public health interventions in the setting of one of the most visible ethnic communities in United States history, Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown offers insight into the clash of Eastern and Western cultures in a time of medical emergency"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The people of Tang" in San Francisco; title: "Guarding life" and way of death; title: Sanitation, microbes, and plague; title: Officials, Mandarins, and the press; title: Early scenes of terror : Chinatown, March to June 1900; title: The siege continues : Chinatown, June to December 1900; title: Secrecy : plague goes underground, 1901; title: Rumors and realities : plague in California, 1902; title: National threat, 1903; title: Sanitarians claim victory, 1904 to 1905.