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Jan. 3rd, 2007 02:45 amAnother imperial issue, the employment conditions of Chinese indentured labourers in South Africa, was invoked to stir the nation's conscience (by Labour Party prior to their win in 1906 -- DM).
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British sexual morality was offended by the official banning of women from the mine workers' compounds, a restriction which, it was alleged, would cause a mass outbreak of sodomy among the frustrated Chinese. This proved not to be the case as government enquiry of 1906 discovered. Among the evidence were the tart remarks of the Medical Officer of Health for the Rand, in whose opinion there was, per head, more sodomy among the men of London than the Chinese in Johannesburg. Understandably, the report was never published.
Lawrence James, "The Rise and Fall of British Empire", chapter 10, p.322.
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British sexual morality was offended by the official banning of women from the mine workers' compounds, a restriction which, it was alleged, would cause a mass outbreak of sodomy among the frustrated Chinese. This proved not to be the case as government enquiry of 1906 discovered. Among the evidence were the tart remarks of the Medical Officer of Health for the Rand, in whose opinion there was, per head, more sodomy among the men of London than the Chinese in Johannesburg. Understandably, the report was never published.
Lawrence James, "The Rise and Fall of British Empire", chapter 10, p.322.