Chinese at Home Inscribed to Representative J.K.
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Author: Farwell, Willard Brigham
Title: The Chinese At Home and Abroad
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:A.L. Bancroft & Co.
Date Published: 1885
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With color lithograph fold-out "Official Map of Chinatown San Francisco", unfolds to 8½x21", color-coded to show the names of Chinese residents and business owners, Buddhist "joss houses", gambling houses, opium "resorts" and houses of prostitution. (8vo) 21.5x13 cm (8½x5¼"), original gilt-lettered cloth binding, all edges marbled. First Edition.
Inscribed by the author to J.K. Luttrell (1831-1893), member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1873-1879 and author of speech titled "The Chinese in America" given in 1878. Besides the notable map, apparently the first of its kind, the manifestly racist text by Farwell, then a San Francisco Supervisor, highlights the "inhumanity" of the Chinese "race", Chinese "cheap labor", the "opium habit", the "spread of leprosy", and inter-racial conflict, including anti-Chinese massacres in Wyoming and Washington Territory. The second part of the volume is the complete text of the Board of Supervisors report on Chinatown health hazards, with an added chapter on the Chinese in Sacramento.
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