Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown / Guenter B. Risse.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2012], ©2012.

xii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The people of Tang" in San Francisco -- "Guarding life" and way of death -- Sanitation, microbes, and plague -- Officials, Mandarins, and the press -- Early scenes of terror : Chinatown, March to June 1900 -- The siege continues : Chinatown, June to December 1900 -- Secrecy : plague goes underground, 1901 -- Rumors and realities : plague in California, 1902 -- National threat, 1903 -- Sanitarians claim victory, 1904 to 1905.