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Mr. Chinatown

Author : Wesley R. Wong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578901916
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Chinatown written by Wesley R. Wong and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Chinatown: The Legacy of H.K. Wong is the story of Henry Kwock Wong, better known as H.K., a second-generation Chinese American who became such a popular and influential personality in San Francisco's Chinatown from the 1930s to the 1980s that he was nicknamed "Mr. Chinatown" and "Mayor of Grant Avenue" by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and residents of Chinatown. A businessman, entrepreneur, restaurateur, sportsman, journalist, author, promoter, historian, technical director, watercolor artist, and family man, he left an indelible mark on San Francisco and Chinatown. In fact, it could be said that H.K. laid the foundation for today's Chinatown. With his extroverted, upbeat, enthusiastic personality, and infectious laugh, H.K. was so avid about building a positive image for Chinatown, that in 1987, the San Francisco Examiner posthumously selected him as one of the 101 most memorable San Franciscans over the past hundred years, in celebration of the newspaper's centennial. From acting as a one-man press bureau for the entire Chinese community to building the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade and founding many Chinese sports clubs, he promoted Chinatown to the community. He also co-established the landmark Empress of China Restaurant, brought the first major archeological exhibition to travel outside China since the end of WWII to San Francisco, The Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China, as well as numerous other art exhibitions from China. Additionally, he worked as a technical advisor for the movie Flower Drum Song. He also worked as a liaison between Chinatown and numerous governments and organizations, both nationally and abroad. H.K. was energetic, exuberant, and worked tirelessly to promote San Francisco's Chinatown and its cultural traditions. In writing this book, in addition to paying homage to H.K.'s significant contribution to San Francisco's and Chinatown's history, the author honors the integrity of who H.K. was, which can best be summed up in H.K.'s own words: "I believe in doing what you can in the sense of being able to help, particularly when something can enhance life for all of us."

Mister Jiu's in Chinatown

Author : Brandon Jew
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1984856502
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Mister Jiu's in Chinatown written by Brandon Jew and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed chef behind the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu’s restaurant shares the past, present, and future of Chinese cooking in America through 90 mouthwatering recipes. ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle • ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Glamour • “Brandon Jew’s affection for San Francisco’s Chinatown and his own Chinese heritage is palpable in this cookbook, which is both a recipe collection and a portrait of a district rich in history.”—Fuchsia Dunlop, James Beard Award-winning author of The Food of Sichuan Brandon Jew trained in the kitchens of California cuisine pioneers and Michelin-starred Italian institutions before finding his way back to Chinatown and the food of his childhood. Through deeply personal recipes and stories about the neighborhood that often inspires them, this groundbreaking cookbook is an intimate account of how Chinese food became American food and the making of a Chinese American chef. Jew takes inspiration from classic Chinatown recipes to create innovative spins like Sizzling Rice Soup, Squid Ink Wontons, Orange Chicken Wings, Liberty Roast Duck, Mushroom Mu Shu, and Banana Black Sesame Pie. From the fundamentals of Chinese cooking to master class recipes, he interweaves recipes and techniques with stories about their origins in Chinatown and in his own family history. And he connects his classical training and American roots to Chinese traditions in chapters celebrating dim sum, dumplings, and banquet-style parties. With more than a hundred photographs of finished dishes as well as moving and evocative atmospheric shots of Chinatown, this book is also an intimate portrait—a look down the alleyways, above the tourist shops, and into the kitchens—of the neighborhood that changed the flavor of America.

Chinatown Pretty

Author : Valerie Luu
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452175837
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Chinatown Pretty written by Valerie Luu and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns. Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown's most fashionable elders on their blog and Instagram, Chinatown Pretty, since 2014. Chinatown Pretty is a signature style worn by pòh pohs (grandmas) and gùng gungs (grandpas) everywhere—but it's also a life philosophy, mixing resourcefulness, creativity, and a knack for finding joy even in difficult circumstances. • Photos span Chinatowns in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Vancouver. • The style is a mix of modern and vintage, high and low, handmade and store bought clothing. • This is a celebration of Chinese American culture, active old-age, and creative style. Chinatown Pretty shares nuggets of philosophical wisdom and personal stories about immigration and Chinese-American culture. This book is great for anyone looking for advice on how to live to a ripe old age with grace and good humor—and, of course, on how to stay stylish. • This book will resonate with photography buffs, fashionistas, and Asian Americans of all ages. • Chinatown Pretty has been featured by Vogue.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Design Sponge, Rookie, Refinery29, and others. • With a textured cover and glossy bellyband, this beautiful volume makes a deluxe gift. • Add it to the shelf with books like Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton, Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen, and Fruits by Shoichi Aoki.

American Chinatown

Author : Bonnie Tsui
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416558365
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book American Chinatown written by Bonnie Tsui and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHINATOWN, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities than you might imagine. Every day, Americans find "something different" in Chinatown's narrow lanes and overflowing markets, tasting exotic delicacies from a world apart or bartering for a trinket on the street -- all without ever leaving the country. It's a place that's foreign yet familiar, by now quite well known on the Western cultural radar, but splitting the difference still gives many visitors to Chinatown the sense, above all, that things are not what they seem -- something everyone in popular culture, from Charlie Chan to Jack Nicholson, has been telling us for decades. And it's true that few visitors realize just how much goes on beneath the surface of this vibrant microcosm, a place with its own deeply felt history and stories of national cultural significance. But Chinatown is not a place that needs solving; it's a place that needs a more specific telling. In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the neighborhood that has bewitched her since childhood, when she eagerly awaited her grandfather's return from the fortune-cookie factory. Tsui visits the country's four most famous Chinatowns -- San Francisco (the oldest), New York (the biggest), Los Angeles (the film icon), Honolulu (the crossroads) -- and makes her final, fascinating stop in Las Vegas (the newest; this Chinatown began as a mall); in her explorations, she focuses on the remarkable experiences of ordinary people, everyone from first-to fifth-generation Chinese Americans. American Chinatown breaks down the enigma of Chinatown by offering narrative glimpses: intriguing characters who reveal the realities and the unexpected details of Chinatown life that American audiences haven't heard. There are beauty queens, celebrity chefs, immigrant garment workers; there are high school kids who are changing inner-city life in San Francisco, Chinese extras who played key roles in 1940s Hollywood, new arrivals who go straight to dealer school in Las Vegas hoping to find their fortunes in their own vision of "gold mountain." Tsui's investigations run everywhere, from mom-and-pop fortune-cookie factories to the mall, leaving no stone unturned. By interweaving her personal impressions with the experiences of those living in these unique communities, Tsui beautifully captures their vivid stories, giving readers a deeper look into what "Chinatown" means to its inhabitants, what each community takes on from its American home, and what their experience means to America at large. For anyone who has ever wandered through Chinatown and wondered what it was all about, and for Americans wanting to understand the changing face of their own country, American Chinatown is an all-access pass.

My Chinatown

Author : Kam Mak
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060291907
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book My Chinatown written by Kam Mak and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinatown -- a place of dragons and dreams; fireflies and memories Chinatown -- full of wonder and magic; fireworks on New Year's Day and a delicious smell on every corner Chinatown -- where every day brings something familiar and something wondrously new to a small boy Chinatown -- home? Kam Mak grew up in a place of two cultures, one existing within the other. Using extraordinarily beautiful paintings and moving poems, he shares a year of growing up in this small city within a city, which is called Chinatown.

Behavioral Causes of Census Undercount, New York City's Chinatown

Author : Betty Lee Sung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behavioral Causes of Census Undercount, New York City's Chinatown written by Betty Lee Sung and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mr. China

Author : Tim Clissold
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060761393
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Mr. China written by Tim Clissold and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chines into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful and creative operators he would ever meet.

The Big Goodbye

Author : Sam Wasson
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250301831
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Big Goodbye written by Sam Wasson and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written. Praise for Sam Wasson: "Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker "Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 2268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: pt. 1-1A. Florida

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: pt. 1-1A. Florida written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

BOX OFFICE ARCHAEOLOGY

Author : Julie M Schablitsky
Publisher : Left Coast Press
ISBN 13 : 1611324513
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book BOX OFFICE ARCHAEOLOGY written by Julie M Schablitsky and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How true is it?” is a common refrain of patrons coming out of movie theatres after the latest film on pirates, Vikings, or mummies. While Hollywood usurps the past for its own entertainment purposes, archaeologists and historians know a lot about many of these subjects, digging up stories often more fascinating than the ones projected on screen. This distinguished group of archaeologists select key subjects and genres used by Hollywood and provide the historical and archaeological depth that a movie cannot—what really happened in history. Topics include Egypt, the Wild West, Civil War submarines, Vikings, the Titanic, and others. The book should be of interest to introductory archaeology and American history classes, courses on film and popular culture, and to a general audience. Alternate Selection, History Book Club.

Tea That Burns

Author : Bruce Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743236599
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Tea That Burns written by Bruce Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Edward Hall may have an English name and a Connecticut upbringing, but for him a trip to Chinatown, New York, is a visit to the ghosts of his Chinese ancestors - ancestors who helped create the neighborhood that is really as much a transplanted Cantonese village as it is a part of a great American city. Among these Ancestors are missionaries and reprobates, businessmen and scholars. In Tea That Burns, Bruce Edward Hall uses the stories of these and others to tell the history of Chinatown, starting with the tumultuous journey from an ancient empire ruled by the nine dragons of the universe to a bewildering land of elevated trains, solitary labor, and violent discrimination. The world they constructed was built of backbreaking labor and poetry contests; gambling dens and Cantonese opera; Tong Wars, festivals, firecrackers, incense, and food - always food, to celebrate every conceivable occasion and to confound the ever-meddlesome "White Devils" as they attempt to master the mysteries of chop sticks and stir-fry.

Index to Dates of Current Events Occurring Or Reported ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Index to Dates of Current Events Occurring Or Reported ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Industrial Relations

Author : United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Industrial Relations written by United States. Commission on Industrial Relations and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Suds in Your Eye

Author : Jack Kirkland
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822210955
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Suds in Your Eye written by Jack Kirkland and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1944 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A romantic tale of three ladies who, though penniless, extract from life more fun than most people ever enjoy. In Mrs. Feeley's junk yard are gathered a rich assortment of young and old, including a Chinese boy, a teacher, detectives, a

Miscellaneous Documents

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1394 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Miscellaneous Documents written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: