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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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