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Picturing Chinatown
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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.

The children of Chinatown
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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

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