By S. Auerbach
This ebook examines the old evolution of chinese language groups in early twentieth-century Britain and their importance within the improvement of race as a class in British legislation, politics, and culture. During this era, fears in regards to the ethical and fiscal impression of chinese language immigration, amplified by means of press sensationalism and lurid fictional portrayals of London’s “Chinatown” as a den of vice and iniquity, triggered mass arrests, deportations, and mob violence. Even after Chinatown was once demolished and its population dispersed, the stereotype of the chinese language felony mastermind and different “yellow peril” pictures remained as everlasting points of British tradition.
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51 In labor policy decisions, however, the economic demands of employers and the focus on profits initially outweighed both the protests of labor interests and public anxiety over the influx of alien workers. The opinion of the Chinese workers themselves on their indentured labor in the Rand went all but unheard. Chinese labor would arrive, and in considerable numbers, but only under conditions tightly controlled by the terms of the LIO. 52 From the very beginning, the Transvaal government, in cooperation with mining interests, instituted a strict legal regimen for the monitoring and control of the importation, transportation, labor, and repatriation of Chinese workers.
Chinese workers unloading tea from the Louden Castle (Hankow) on the East India Docks. (Illustrated London News, December 8, 1877. ) 18 race, law, and “the chinese puzzle” in imperial britain British descriptions of Chinese men in the empire. The most prevalent was the Chinese “coolie,” who was depicted as an industrious, docile worker suitable for a variety of unskilled employments. 2 “Coolie” was a term also commonly applied by British commentators to Indian indentured laborers throughout the empire.
52 From the very beginning, the Transvaal government, in cooperation with mining interests, instituted a strict legal regimen for the monitoring and control of the importation, transportation, labor, and repatriation of Chinese workers. 53 But the most stringent regulations applied to the Chinese workers themselves. The LIO severely limited their freedom of movement and empowered local authorities to use whatever methods the imperial dimensions of british racial discourse 31 necessary to keep the population under a veritable social quarantine.