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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN-139780804745505
eBay Product ID (ePID)95539520
Product Key Features
Number of Pages432 Pages
Publication NameChinese San Francisco, 1850-1943 :A Trans-Pacific Community
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2002
TypeTextbook
AuthorYong Chen
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight590 g
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorYong Chen
Series TitleAsian America
TopicLocal History
