Book Description
130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.
Author : Arnold Genthe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0486140695
130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.
Author : Judy Yung
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738531304
An evocative collection of vintage photographs traces the history of San Francisco's Chinatown, the largest and oldest Chinese enclave outside of Asia, from the Gold Rush era to the present day, capturing the realities of everyday life, as well as the changes in the community, the challenges confronting the Chinese immigrants, and its rich cultural heritage. Original.
Author : Will Irwin
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Chinese
ISBN :
Author : Karen Barnett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1682998452
While her sister lies on her deathbed, Abby Fischer prays for a miracle. What Abby doesn't expect, however, is for God's answer to come in the form of the handsome Dr. Robert King, whose experimental treatment is risky at best. As they work together toward a cure, Abby's feelings for Robert become hopelessly entangled. Separated by the tragedy of the mighty San Francisco earthquake, their relationship suddenly takes a back seat to survival. With fires raging throughout the city, Abby fears for her life as she flees alone through burning streets. Where is God now? Will Robert find Abby, even as the world burns around them? Or has their love fallen with the ruins of the city?
Author : Arnold Genthe
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1992-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780781250375
Bonded Leather binding
Author : Paul C.P. Siu
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814778746
The definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and those who worked in them in the U.S. Considered a classic piece by students of overseas Chinese and Asian American studies, "The Chinese Laundryman" is also a landmark in the study of ethnic occupations and in the social and cultural history of the immigrant in America. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
Author : Samuel Dickson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804720977
Seventy-two colorful stories about the men and women, the places and events that have contributed to San Francisco's flamboyant history are included in this one-volume edition of Samuel Dickson's three popular books, San Francisco Is Your Home, San Francisco Kaleidoscope, and The Streets of San Francisco.
Author : Kim K. Fahlstedt
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1978804423
Chinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Working with materials previously left in the margins of grand narratives of history, Kim K. Fahlstedt uncovers the complexity of a local entertainment culture that offered spaces where marginalized Chinese Americans experienced and participated in local iterations of modernity. At the same time, this space also fostered a powerful Orientalist aesthetic that would eventually be exported to Hollywood by San Francisco showmen such as Sid Grauman. Instead of primarily focusing on the screen-spectator relationship, Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street to inside the movie theater. By highlighting San Francisco and Chinatown as featured participants rather than bit players, Chinatown Film Culture provides an historical account from the margins, alternative to the more dominant narratives of U.S. film history.
Author : Amy K. DeFalco Lippert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 0190268972
Consuming Identities restores the California gold rush to its rightful place as the first pivotal chapter in the American history of photography, and uncovers nineteenth-century San Francisco's position in the vanguard of modern visual culture.
Author : Josephine D. Lee
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Asian American arts
ISBN : 9781439901205
Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century to the 1960s, the essays address the Asian American individuals and communities that have been omitted from "official" histories; trace the roots of persistent racial stereotypes and myths; and retrieve artistic production that raises questions of what counts as "art" or as Asian American. By reconsidering the political, cultural, and material history written in the past three decades, contributes to a new understanding of Asian America's past and relationship to the present.