Genthes Photographs Of San Franciscos Old Chinatown

Author : Arnold Genthe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140695
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown written by Arnold Genthe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.

Author : Will Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Chinatown written by Will Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520225923
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing Chinatown written by Anthony W. Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout European history, Jews have been associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. This is the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effect on modern Jewish identity.

Author : Judy Yung
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738531304
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Francisco's Chinatown written by Judy Yung and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative collection of vintage photographs traces the history of San Francisco's Chinatown, the largest and oldest Chinese enclave outside of Asia, from the Gold Rush era to the present day, capturing the realities of everyday life, as well as the changes in the community, the challenges confronting the Chinese immigrants, and its rich cultural heritage. Original.

Author : Arnold Genthe
Publisher : Westphalia Press
ISBN 13 : 9781633912274
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Chinatown written by Arnold Genthe and published by Westphalia Press. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of a number of Westphalia titles significant in the story of the not always happy and often controversial Chinese contact with Western society. In the American case, despite appreciation by scholars for Chinese civilization, cries against Chinese immigration began in response to the development of the transcontinental railroad that saw the arrival of immigrants exploited as cheap labor. The first restrictive Act passed on May 6, 1882, and was the start of a series of increasingly more restrictive laws against Chinese, such as the Act to Prohibit the Coming of Chinese Persons into the United States, known more popularly as the Geary Act of May 1892. It wasn't until the Immigration Act of October 1965 when the exclusionary practices were lifted, despite President Truman's signing of the Act to Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts, to Establish Quotas and for Other Purposes in December of 1943.

Author : Laverne Mau Dicker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese in San Francisco written by Laverne Mau Dicker and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historical portrait of San Francisco is created through a view of the development of Chinatown from the era of immigration in the late 1800s through the years of World War II to the present- Amazon.

Author : Karen Barnett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1682998452
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Ruins written by Karen Barnett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her sister lies on her deathbed, Abby Fischer prays for a miracle. What Abby doesn't expect, however, is for God's answer to come in the form of the handsome Dr. Robert King, whose experimental treatment is risky at best. As they work together toward a cure, Abby's feelings for Robert become hopelessly entangled. Separated by the tragedy of the mighty San Francisco earthquake, their relationship suddenly takes a back seat to survival. With fires raging throughout the city, Abby fears for her life as she flees alone through burning streets. Where is God now? Will Robert find Abby, even as the world burns around them? Or has their love fallen with the ruins of the city?

Author : Paul C.P. Siu
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814778746
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Laundryman written by Paul C.P. Siu and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and those who worked in them in the U.S. Considered a classic piece by students of overseas Chinese and Asian American studies, "The Chinese Laundryman" is also a landmark in the study of ethnic occupations and in the social and cultural history of the immigrant in America. *Lightning Print On Demand Title

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618584340
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of the Chinese in California written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese were a visible current in the tidal wave of humanity that rushed through San Francisco’s Golden Gate in the mid-nineteenth century. Known to their countrymen as Gam Saan Haak (guests of Gold Mountain), Chinese immigrants sought great fortune. Most found only hostility and hard work, often braving the most dangerous and loathsome jobs. They endured violence and injustice, yet clung to this land with tenacity and patience and made it their own. With nearly 200 historic photographs gathered from notable collections, this book explores a century of Chinese progress in California. Retracing the immigrants’ steps—from the gold fields to the high Sierra railroad camps, to lettuce fields and olive groves, and to the Monterey coast—we visit Chinese enclaves throughout the state. We linger in San Francisco’s old Chinatown, home to cherished children and notorious tong gangs, where new arrivals first found refuge and familiar goods, and tourists later found exotic merchandise spilling from aging storefronts. These historic images recall a time when the Chinese community in California was still a world apart.

Author : John Kuo Wei Tchen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867941
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Before Chinatown written by John Kuo Wei Tchen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes from the years before Chinatown emerged in the late 1870s, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen redraws Manhattan's historical landscape and broadens our understanding of the role of port cultures in the making of American identities."--BOOK JACKET.