The project traces back the origin of Yellow Peril and tackles Anti-Chinese sentiments in American History by proposing a monumental civic complex that worships the Queen Mother of the West in the Ghost Town of Bodie, a derelict gold mining town. The complex, which spans the town, represents the core ideals of the Queen Mother, which consist of Life, Death, Creation and Destruction, resulting in a hybrid programme that consists of a temple, crematorium, funeral parlour, cemetery and a restaurant with a garden of peaches. Serving as a safe haven and a sacred place for Chinese immigrants in America, the Queen Mother of the West symbolically protects the immigrants in the ‘West’. The proposal also provides redemption for past victims by treating the site of Bodie as a site of sins. Inspired by Chinese customs of ancestral worshipping, the site and its remnants will be cleansed through the act of burning as an offering to the deceased of the past 3000 years.