American Chinatown
A People's History of Five Neighborhoods
New York : Free Press, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First Free Press trade paperback edition.
Description: viii, 272 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Tsui offers a unique full-access pass to America's most famous Chinatowns--New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Las Vegas--revealing a captivating world-within-a-world. b&w photos throughout.
Contents:
Personal geography -- The Oldest: San Francisco. American pagodas: behind the tourist architecture -- Alleyway kids: how youth is reinvigorating the neighborhood -- Chain migration: family ties pull a new generation through Chinatown Gate, but not without difficulty -- The Biggest: New York. City within a city: the industry of Chinatown changes New York -- The new Chinese school: learning to read, write, and live a heritage -- Fortune cookies: what the path of the folded wafers tells us about the movement of communities -- The Hollywood Icon: Los Angeles. Chinatownland: the longtime partnership between Hollywood and Chinatown -- Hometown Chinatown: in an increasingly disparate community, it is where the kids hang out -- Preacher man, teacher man: neighborhood anchors for the new arrival -- The Crossroads: Honolulu. Kapakahi Chinatown: where "all mixed up" is the enduring story -- Neighborhood crossings: how a local boy became an accidental chef -- History lessons: Chinatown's disenchanted generation, on preserving the past and shaping the future -- The Newest: Las Vegas. Chinatown, next exit: the man who invented a new breed of Chinatown -- Miss Chinatown, U.S.A. : beauty queens and lion dancers in the desert -- The new tenants: the new immigrant generation on the Strip -- Moving pictures -- A conversation with author Bonnie Tsui.
Subjects:
Chinatowns -- United States.
Chinese Americans -- Social life and customs.
Chinese Americans -- Social conditions.
City and town life -- United States.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Chinatown Plaza (Las Vegas, Nev.)
United States -- History, Local.
Chinatowns -- United States.
Chinese Americans -- Social life and customs.
Chinese Americans -- Social conditions.
City and town life -- United States.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Chinatown Plaza (Las Vegas, Nev.)
United States -- History, Local.
ISBN:
1416557245 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US Tsu | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Originally published in hardcover 2009. Reprinted in paperback 2011 with a question and answer conversation with the author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-262) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-262) and index.