| Autor: |
Larkin, Thomas M |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
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| Zdroj: |
Larkin, T M 2023, ' "A Life of Suspicion and Distrust" : Race, Sino-American Relations, and the 1857 Poison Panic in Hong Kong ', Pacific Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 135-163 . https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.135 |
| DOI: |
10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.135 |
| Popis: |
On January 15, 1857, as the Second Opium War raged, bread distributed by the Esing bakery to Hong Kong’s Western community was doctored with a prodigious amount of arsenic. Few were seriously harmed, but the American trader Augustine Heard Jr noted that the poisoning marked a great change in the Sino-American relationship. Although Americans were not involved in the war, Heard’s comments suggest that, influenced by rumors and panic, the Sino-American relationship deteriorated as Americans increasingly saw themselves as members of a besieged white community. This article argues that the 1857 Hong Kong poison panic was a watershed moment that recalibrated how Americans in China perceived the Chinese, and that such panics entrenched racial barriers between white and non-white colonial communities. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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