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2009
Overview
Sensational articles about urban vice were common journalistic fare in American newspapers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and San Francisco’s newspapers were no exception. Tales of white slavery, detailing the sexual exploitation of women, proved especially popular.¹ Crime in San Francisco’s Chinatown seemed even more lurid and exotic, as articles appeared almost daily with scandalous new details to entice eager readers. This chapter focuses on some of Chinatown’s exceptional and rare cases by examining the experiences of Chinese children in the missions and the justice system. Once again, various groups manipulated the facts to further their own
