New York Before Chinatown

New York Before Chinatown
Author: John Kuo Wei Tchen
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2001-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801867941

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"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.


New York Before Chinatown
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: John Kuo Wei Tchen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-21 - Publisher: JHU Press

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"Piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes from the years before Chinatown emerged in the late 1870s, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen redraws Man
God in Chinatown
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Kenneth J. Guest
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08 - Publisher: NYU Press

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An insightful look into the central role of religious community in the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to New York Chinatown yet God in Chinatown is
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Pages: 296
Authors: Hsiang-Shui Chen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves t
Manhattan's Chinatown
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: Daniel Ostrow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Manhattan's Chinatown is an enclave located in the oldest section of New York City, Manhattan's Lower East Side. For most who reside there, Chinatown serves as
New York City's Chinese Community
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Josephine Tsui Yueh Lee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Beginning in the late 19th century, Chinese immigrants arrived in New York City with hopes of more opportunity for better lives. Once confined to a few streets