- The "Oriental" Problem: Trachoma and Asian Immigrants in the United States, 1897-1910
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Shin JH
- KMID: 1788603
- Korean J Med Hist.
- 2014 Dec;23(3):573-606.
- doi: 10.13081/kjmh.2014.23.573
This essay examines the period between 1897 and 1910, when trachoma, a contagious eye disease, became an "Oriental" problem that justified exclusionary immigration policy against Asians entering the United States.... -
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