Tong Wars
The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: xxvi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Tong Wars is historical true-crime set against the perfect landscape: Chinatown, New York City. Chinese rival tongs (secret societies) each lauded over illegal markets such as gambling and prostitution, and nothing could shut them down. Not threats or negotiations, not prison, not even executions. Pretty soon Chinese were slaughtering one another in the streets, inaugurating a succession of wars that raged for the next 30 years. This is the true account of these wars, turf wars fuelled by gangsters and drug lords, prostitutes, judges and cops.
Subjects:
Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Chinese American criminals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Chinese American criminals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
ISBN:
9780399562273
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRUE CRIME Sel | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
TRUE CRIME Sel | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-321) and index.