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Race, law, and "the Chinese puzzle" in imperial Britain / Sascha Auerbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auerbach, Sascha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Great Britain--History.
- Chinese.
- Chinese--Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social conditions.
- China--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- China.
- Great Britain--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Contents:
- "Chinese labour" and the imperial dimensions of British racial discourse
- The dragon and Saint George, 1910-14
- "Most insidious is the oriental in the West": Chinese and Britons in wartime London
- East (End) meets West (End)
- "This plague spot of the metropolis," 1919-21
- Epilogue : the ghosts of Chinatown.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 023060949X
- 9780230609495
- OCLC:
- 226357015
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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