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Donald Duk
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ISBN: 0918273838 Year: 1991 Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. Coffee House Press

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On the eve of the Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown, twelve-year-old Donald Duk attempts to deal with his comical name and his feelings for his cultural heritage.


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Slocum Giant 2007 : Slocum and the Celestial Bones
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ISBN: 1101219017 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Jove Books,

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When a lovely Asian flower saves Slocum's life in San Francisco's Chinatown, he must pay back his debt by finding her father, who's been kidnapped by the Sum Yop gang.

Picturing Chinatown : art and orientalism in San Francisco
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ISBN: 0520925866 1597348074 9780520925861 0585467447 9780585467443 9781597348072 9780520225923 0520225929 0520225929 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination.


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Longtime Californ': a documentary study of an American Chinatown
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ISBN: 0804713367 Year: 1986 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

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Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown.
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ISBN: 9780520253506 9780520253513 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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Sino-Amerika : Stereotyp und Wirklichkeit. Die historische Entwicklung (1848 - 1965) und die aktuelle Situation der Chinese Americans (1965 - 1990).
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ISBN: 3631473362 Year: 1995 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

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The children of Chinatown : growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920
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ISBN: 1469605376 0807898589 9780807898581 9781469605371 9780807833131 0807833134 9780807859735 0807859737 9798893133523 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally

The adventures of Eddie Fung : Chinatown kid, Texas cowboy, prisoner of war
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ISBN: 0295802057 9780295802053 9780295987545 0295987545 Year: 2007 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,

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Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle.Working under brutal slave labor conditions, the men completed the railroad in fourteen months, at the cost of 12,500 POW and 70,000 Asian lives. Eddie lived to tell how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life.

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