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Author : Robert J. Randisi
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612325777
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Chinatown Chance written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Cutter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380849888
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Chinatown Chance written by Tom Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Randisi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612328072
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Chinatown Chance written by Robert J. Randisi and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN CHINATOWN'S GAMBLING DENS, TRACKER'S WINNING DRAW IS HIS GUN. San Francisco's pleasure dens offered not only gambling, but opium, beautiful women, and a nefarious assortment of other vices. In fact, anything was available in Chinatown. Including a very nasty death. Tracker's never been one to pass on a risk, especially when there's hard cash for the winning, and several luscious ladies bidding up the action. But to retrieve a U.S. Senator's gambling markers before they fall into the wrong hands, Tracker's got his life on the line... His latest job has him up against the infamous White Pigeon Tong, the most powerful Chinese gang in the West. To them, murder is just a mild form of punishment. For Tracker, they will devise a most delightful demise indeed.
Author : Liping Zhu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Chinaman's Chance written by Liping Zhu and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers and historians have traditionally portrayed Chinese immigrants in the nineteenth-century American West as victims. For them, the American frontier was a place that offered no more than a "Chinaman's chance". By examining the early history of the Boise Basin, Idaho, Liping Zhu challenges the stereotypical image of the Chinese pioneers. Looking at various aspects of their experience, he takes an entirely new approach to the study of this ethnic minority. Between 1863 and 1910, a large number of Chinese immigrants resided in Idaho's Boise Basin, searching for gold. As in many Rocky Mountain mining camps, they comprised a majority of the population. Unlike settlers in many other boom-and-bust western mining towns, the Chinese in the Boise Basin managed to stay there for more than half a century. Like other pioneers, the Chinese immigrants in this unique Rocky Mountain mining region had equal access to the pursuit of happiness. Their basic material needs were guaranteed, and many individuals were able to accumulate a considerable amount of wealth and climb up the economic ladder. The Chinese equality was also seen in frontier justice. To settle the disputes, they frequently challenged white opponents in the various courts as well as in gun battles. Thus, the Chinese played all the stereotypical frontier roles - victors, victims, and villains. Despite occasional conflicts and personal rivalries, race relations between the Chinese and Euroamericans were relativeiy good; cultural accommodation, not confrontation, was the predominant theme. The Idaho Chinese actually received opportunities far beyond what has been assumed.
Author : Charles Yu
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307948471
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Interior Chinatown written by Charles Yu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes "one of the funniest books of the year.... A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire" (The Washington Post). A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.
Author : William Low
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805042146
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Chinatown written by William Low and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy and his grandmother wind their way through the streets of Chinatown, enjoying all the sights and smells of the Chinese New Year's Day.
Author : Mary Ting Li Lui
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691091969
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (919 download)
Download or read book The Chinatown Trunk Mystery written by Mary Ting Li Lui and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Lisa Yee
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1984830287
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Maizy Chen's Last Chance written by Lisa Yee and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURE Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Booklist • The Horn Book • New York Public Library Welcome to the Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom’s plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance and at the Golden Palace—the restaurant that’s been in her family for generations—she makes some discoveries.For instance: You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food. People can surprise you. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in disappointing ways. And the Golden Palace has secrets... But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people in the photographs on the office wall? And when she discovers that a beloved family treasure has gone missing—and someone has left a racist note—Maizy decides it’s time to find the answers.
Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520225923
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Picturing Chinatown written by Anthony W. Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout European history, Jews have been associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. This is the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effect on modern Jewish identity.
Author : Dr Anshumali Pandey
Publisher : Amazon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (581 download)
Download or read book The Indo Chinese Pot Boiler written by Dr Anshumali Pandey and published by Amazon Press. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bustling city of Kolkata, where the aroma of spices mingles with the sounds of diverse languages, there lies a hidden treasure—a vibrant community with a rich cultural heritage that has left an indelible mark on the tapestry of Indian society. This community is none other than the Hakka Chinese in India. This Book takes you on a captivating journey into the heart of the Chinese diaspora in the subcontinent. From their ancient origins in China to their migration and settlement in India, this book unravels the fascinating history, culture, and cuisine of the Hakka people. Step back in time and witness the early interactions of the Hakka with Indian society, as they navigated the complexities of colonial rule and established themselves as an integral part of the diverse fabric of Kolkata’s multicultural landscape. Learn about their religious practices, festivals, and unique celebrations that have been passed down through generations, preserving their cultural identity. Explore the culinary traditions that have melded Chinese flavors with Indian spices, creating a fusion of tastes that tantalize the taste buds of food enthusiasts across the nation. From Hakka noodles to Chilli Chicken, Schezwan Fried Rice to Dragon Chicken, indulge in the delectable culinary delights that the Hakka Chinese have gifted to India. Uncover the struggles and triumphs of the Hakka community as they faced discrimination, economic challenges, and the impact of historical events such as the Sino-Indian War of 1962. Discover how the community’s resilience and adaptability have shaped their unique identity and contributed to the broader Indian society.
Author : Wendy Rouse Jorae
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807898589
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Children of Chinatown written by Wendy Rouse Jorae and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.
Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592134489
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Chinese American Transnationalism written by Sucheng Chan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Chinese American Transnationalism considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant interchange of people and economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. This book continues the exploration of the exclusion era begun in two previous volumes: Entry Denied, which examines the strategies that Chinese Americans used to protest, undermine, and circumvent the exclusion laws; and Claiming America, which traces the development of Chinese American ethnic identities. Taken together, the three volumes underscore the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed over the sixty-one year period.
Author : Min Zhou
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439904176
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Chinatown written by Min Zhou and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic enclaves as an alternative means of incorporation into the larger society.
Author : Willard B. Farwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Chinese at Home and Abroad written by Willard B. Farwell and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important, if highly bigoted, early study of the Chinese in California and the West, with discussion of the opium problem in San Francisco, leprosy, Chinatown in Sacramento, attacks on the Chinese in Wyoming and Washington, the 'Chinese Question, ' the need for missionary work, the Chinese and the Central Pacific Railroad, Chinese capitalists, and more. Farwell professed to want to inform the public about Chinese manners and customs in general before turning his focus to a bigoted discussion of the negative qualities that he ascribed to the Chinese people and the negative effects that he suggested those qualities would have on American society. The map mirrors the bias against the Chinese in California with its focus on vice: buildings are identified individually and are color-coded to show gambling houses, opium dens, and places of prostitution (with white and Chinese brothels coded separately).
Author : Xiao-huang Yin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252025242
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s written by Xiao-huang Yin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, an introduction and guide to the field, traces the origins and development of a body of literature written in English and in Chinese.
Author : Louis Joseph Beck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book New York's Chinatown written by Louis Joseph Beck and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mei Ding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000546705
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Traveling Minzu written by Mei Ding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the everyday experiences of Uyghur business migrants, this book investigates how individuals embody and deploy minzu, one of the fundamental concepts in political and socioeconomic discourses in China after 1949, and how this concept travels to Australia with the migrants. Through research on Uyghurs at the Tarim (pseudonym) restaurant in Ürümchi, Uyghur migrants in other major cities in China, and, finally, the immigrants in multicultural Australia, the author explains how they perceive the concept of minzu and how the concept and identity has been reformed and reshaped in specific social and economic contexts. She argues that these Uyghur migrants’ minzu concept is closely intertwined with citizenship, which entails not only a set of legally defined rights and obligations but also a sense of equality and respect. The book provides a new way of reflecting on who the "Chinese" are and what form the "Chineseness" takes in a transnational context. Following the minzu concept in China and Australia, this book shows how cultural intimacy and critical multiculturalism can provide better sociocultural space for various Muslim migrant communities. This book will appeal to social and cultural anthropologists and university students who are interested in China and Inner Asia, ethnicity, and transnational migration between China and the South Pacific.
