Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nayan Shah

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown

Nayan Shah

398 pages • paperback • 2001

2 editions

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Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese...

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