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“A Life of Suspicion and Distrust”: Sino-American Relations, Racialized Anxieties, and Anglo Panic in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong

Thomas Larkin
Journal: Pacific Historical Review
Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (2): 135–163.
https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.135
Published: 01 May 2023
...Thomas Larkin 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...
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Pacific Ocean: Highway to Gold Mountain, 1850–1900

Elizabeth Sinn
Journal: Pacific Historical Review
Pacific Historical Review (2014) 83 (2): 220–237.
https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2014.83.2.220
Published: 01 May 2014
... of the United States to New Zealand and Australia. The overlapping personal, family, financial, and commercial interests of Chinese in California and those in Hong Kong, which provide the focus of this study, energized the connections and kept the Pacific busy and dynamic while shaping the development...
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