Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943

A Trans-Pacific Community

By:

Yong Chen

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Asian America

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Founded during the Gold Rush years, San Francisco's Chinatown became the largest and most vibrant Chinese community in America, and helped shape white America's view of Asians in general. For those Chinese travelling between the Old World and the New, San Francisco was a port of entry and departure. Many Chinese settled there, forming one of the oldest continuing ethnic communities in urban America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco, relating the development of social and cultural institutions, from brothels to the powerful "Six Companies". The book aims to recapture not only the community's collective mentalities but also the lives of ordinary people - labourers, theatre-goers, gamblers, and prostitutes. In so doing, the author brings to life individual personalities with their varying human qualities.

Author Biography:

Yong Chen is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Release date Australia

January 2nd, 2002

Author

Yong Chen

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Pages

432

Series

Asian America

Dimensions

161x221x27

ISBN-13

9780804745505

Product ID

3426252

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