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New York Before Chinatown

Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

By: John Kuo Wei Tchen

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New York Before Chinatown

Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

By: John Kuo Wei Tchen

Piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes from the years before Chinatown emerged in the late 1870s, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen redraws Manhattan's historical landscape and broadens our understanding of the role of port cultures in the making of American identities."--BOOK JACKET.

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JHU Press

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0801867940

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9780801867941

Yellow Peril!

An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

By: John Kuo Wei Tchen,Dylan Yeats

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Yellow Peril!

An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

By: John Kuo Wei Tchen,Dylan Yeats

From invading hordes to enemy agents, a great fear haunts the West! The “yellow peril” is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culture—dating back to the birth of European colonialism during the Enlightenment. Yet while Fu Manchu looks almost quaint today, the prejudices that gave him life persist in modern culture. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, and it surveys the extent of this iniquitous form of paranoia. Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation.

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401

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Verso Books

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1781681236

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9781781681237

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

By: Arnold Genthe,John Kuo Wei Tchen

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Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

By: Arnold Genthe,John Kuo Wei Tchen

130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.

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158

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Courier Corporation

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0486140695

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9780486140698

The Wonders

By: John Woolf

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The Wonders

By: John Woolf

On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle—of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins, and swaggering showmen. But the real stories—human dramas that so often eclipsed the fantasy presented on the stage—of the performing men, women and children, have been forgotten or marginalized in the histories of the very people who exploited them. In this richly evocative account, John Woolf uses a wealth of recently discovered material to bring to life the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, always extraordinary stories of people who used their (dis)abilities and difference to become some of the first international celebrities. Through their lives we discover afresh some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of show business, of celebrity, of advertising, and of “alternative facts” while also exploring the tensions between the power of fame, the impact of exploitation, and our fascination with “otherness.”

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380

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Simon and Schuster

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164313292X

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9781643132921

Chinese Laundries

Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain

By: John Jung

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Chinese Laundries

Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain

By: John Jung

A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families.

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260

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Lulu.com

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1430329793

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9781430329794

Transcommunality

From The Politics Of Conversion

By: John Brown Childs

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Transcommunality

From The Politics Of Conversion

By: John Brown Childs

How can we build long-lasting communities and movements for change?

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258

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Temple University Press

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1592138454

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9781592138456

Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture

By: John Hill

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Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture

By: John Hill

The essential walking companion to more than two hundred cutting-edge buildings constructed since the new millennium. The first decade of the 21st century has been a time of lively architectural production in New York City. A veritable building boom gripped the city, giving rise to a host of new—and architecturally cutting-edge—residential, corporate, institutional, academic, and commercial structures. With the boom now waning, this guidebook is perfectly timed to take stock of the city’s new skyline and map them all out, literally. This essential walking companion and guide features 200 of the most notable buildings and spaces constructed in New York’s five boroughs since the new millennium—The High Line, by James Corner Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro; 100 Eleventh Avenue, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Brooklyn Children’s Museum, by Rafael Vinoly Architects; 41 Cooper Square, by Morphosis; Poe Park Visitors Center, by Toshiko Mori Architect; and One Bryant Park, by Cook + Fox, to name just a few. Projects are grouped by neighborhood, allowing for easy, self-guided tours, with photos, maps, directions, and descriptions that highlight the most important aspects of each entry.

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305

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393733262

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9780393733266

New York Before Chinatown

Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

By: John Kuo Wei Tchen

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Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

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JHU Press

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0801867940

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The Imperialist Imaginary

Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture

By: John Eperjesi

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The Imperialist Imaginary

Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture

By: John Eperjesi

In a groundbreaking work of ÒNew AmericanistÓ studies, John R. Eperjesi explores the cultural and economic formation of the Unites States relationship to China and the Pacific Rim in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eperjesi examines a variety of texts to explore the emergence of what Rob Wilson has termed the ÒAmerican Pacific.Ó Eperjesi shows how works ranging from Frank NorrisÕ The Octopus to the Journal of the American Asiatic Association, from the Socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason to the travel writings of Jack and Charmain London, and from Maxine Hong KingstonÕs China Men to Ang LeeÕs Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonÑand the cultural dynamics that produced themÑhelped construct the myth of the American Pacific. By construing the Pacific Rim as a unified region binding together the territorial United States with the areas of Asia and the Pacific, he also demonstrates that the logic of the imperialist imaginary suggested it was not only proper but even incumbent upon the United States to exercise both political and economic influence in the region. As Donald E. Pease notes in his foreword, Òby reading foreign policy and economic policy as literature, and by reconceptualizing works of American literature as extenuations of foreign policy and economic theory,Ó Eperjesi makes a significant contribution to studies of American imperialism.

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211

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Dartmouth College Press

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1611686652

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9781611686654

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

By: Arnold Genthe,John Kuo Wei Tchen

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Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

By: Arnold Genthe,John Kuo Wei Tchen

130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.

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Courier Corporation

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0486140695

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Yellow Peril!

An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

By: John Kuo Wei Tchen,Dylan Yeats

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An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear

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1781681236

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New York Before Chinatown

New York Before Chinatown

Yellow Peril!

Yellow Peril!

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

The Wonders

The Wonders

Chinese Laundries

Chinese Laundries

Transcommunality

Transcommunality

Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture

Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture

New York Before Chinatown

New York Before Chinatown

The Imperialist Imaginary

The Imperialist Imaginary

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

Yellow Peril!

Yellow Peril!

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