New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882
By Professor John Kuo Wei Tchen PhD.
Description
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 Chinatown offers a provocative look at the role Chinese people, things, and ideas played in the fashioning of American culture and politics.Piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes from the years before Chinatown emerged in the late 1870s, historian Joh...
ISBN(s)
0801860067, 9780801860065
