Opium Den, as imagined in a nineteen twenties movie.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, most things Chinese offended Western sensibilities. The Asian districts of Western cities were demonized. Of Limehouse, home to London’s few hundred Chinese, one journalist wrote “there is an air of something unrevealed in those narrow st…
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