ASIA AM 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9 & Conclusion: Opium Den, Public Health, Pest House
14 Mar 2018
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Identified needs & demonstrated the worth of those whose needs were unmet. "worthy", "deserving", "caught in a web of misfortune: lobbied the public health department --> open chinese health center & recreation. American society: became increasingly impossible to abandon chinatown, characterized chinese people and chinatown as deviant from, and a danger to the. American public: marked them as "alien" to the american norm. "a plurality of queer domestic arrangements, from female headed household networks to [male] workers" bunkhouses and opium den: the term "queer" does not necessarily refer to homosexuality but encompasses a. Although the author"s analysis of the change in perception is thorough, it is unsettling that other groups make only cameo appearances. More on these groups would provide a context for gauging the white citizens" perceptions of chinese residents. Public health authorities depicted chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions as smallpox, syphilis, and bubonic plague.
