Combining heartfelt stories with first-rate scholarship, Lost and Found reveals the complexities of a people reclaiming their own history. For decades, victims of the United States' mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II were kept from understanding their experience ...
Karen L. Ishizuka
Paperback
248
University of Illinois Press
025207372X
9780252073724
10
From George Washington's desire (in the heat of the Revolutionary War) for a proper set of Chinese porcelains for afternoon tea, to the lives of Chinese-Irish couples in the 1830s, to the commercial success of Chang and Eng (the "Siamese Twins"), to rising fears of "heathen Chinee," New York before ...
Professor John Kuo Wei Tchen PhD
Hardcover
416
The Johns Hopkins University Press
0801860067
9780801860065
8
Presents the history of the Chinese American experience, from the role of Chinese tea in the American Revolution and the rich commercial and cultural interactions between China and the U.S., to an exploration of the practices and principles developed under Chinese Exclusion and their application to ...
John Kuo Wei Tchen
Paperback
80
Scala Arts Publishers Inc.
1857598962
9781857598964
7
Rare photographs of Chinatown at the turn of the 20th century offer priceless glimpses of the rich street life of the district before it was leveled by the great earthquake and fire of 1906. Contains 130 of Genthe's finest Chinatown photos, many painstakingly reproduced from original glass negatives...
John Kuo Wei Tchen
Paperback
144
Dover Publications
0486245926
9780486245928
5
Chinese hand laundries have been a fixture of America's urban landscape for over one hundred years. Yet little is publicly known about the workings of this familiar institution which originated shortly after Chinese immigrants had started to arrive in some numbers in California in the 1850s. At that...
Paul C.P. Siu, John Kuo Wei Tchen
Paperback
354
NYU Press
0814778747
9780814778746
4
From George Washington's desire (in the heat of the Revolutionary War) for a proper set of Chinese porcelains for afternoon tea, to the lives of Chinese-Irish couples in the 1830s, to the commercial success of Chang and Eng (the "Siamese Twins"), to rising fears of "heathen Chinee," New York before...
John Kuo Wei Tchen
Paperback
416
Johns Hopkins University Press
0801867940
9780801867941
3
The "yellow peril" is one of the most long-standing and pervasive racist ideas in Western cultureāindeed, this book traces its history to the Enlightenment era. Yet while Fu Manchu evokes a fading historical memory, yellow peril ideology persists, animating, for example, campaign commercials from th...
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Dylan Yeats
Paperback
336
Verso
1781681236
9781781681237
1