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Author: Carol Green Wilson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Chinese Languages : en Pages : 234
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Donaldina Cameron (July 26, 1869 – January 4, 1968) was a pioneer in the fight against slavery as a Presbyterian missionary in San Francisco's Chinatown, who helped more than 2,000 Chinese immigrant girls and women escape from forced prostitution and indentured servitude. She was known as "Fahn Quai," or the “White Devil” of Chinatown, as well as the "Angry Angel of Chinatown." The body of the book -- which tells of daring raids, hair breadth rescues, the innumerable legal battles, the war on the Tongs .... belongs to a time and place in colorful San Franciscana.
Author: Carol Green Wilson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Chinese Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
Donaldina Cameron (July 26, 1869 – January 4, 1968) was a pioneer in the fight against slavery as a Presbyterian missionary in San Francisco's Chinatown, who helped more than 2,000 Chinese immigrant girls and women escape from forced prostitution and indentured servitude. She was known as "Fahn Quai," or the “White Devil” of Chinatown, as well as the "Angry Angel of Chinatown." The body of the book -- which tells of daring raids, hair breadth rescues, the innumerable legal battles, the war on the Tongs .... belongs to a time and place in colorful San Franciscana.
Author: Eva Armentrout Ma Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317775813 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 172
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Focusing on the local history of the Chinese in Oakland, California, this study examines common stereotypes in the early Chinese community and Chinatown organizations.
Author: Ko-lin Chin Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195136276 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 248
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Rich in data collected from gang members, gang victims, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities, this book offers a systematic study of New York City's Chinatown gangs. "Chin's ethnographic study should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the comparative study of gangs and the role of gangs in American society."--Jerome H. Skolnick, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Author: Vanessa Künnemann Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136709258 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 251
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This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious structural or architectural similarities and overlaps, Chinatowns differ markedly depending on their location. European versions of Chinatowns can certainly not be considered mere replications of the American model. Paying close attention to regional specificities and overarching similarities, Chinatowns thus discloses the important European backdrop to a phenomenon commonly associated with North America. It starts from the assumption that the historical and modern Chinatown needs to be seen as complicatedly involved in a web of cultural memory, public and private narratives, ideologies, and political imperatives. Most of the contributors to this volume have multidisciplinary and multilingual backgrounds and are familiar with several different instances of the Chinese diasporic experience. With its triangular approach to the developments between China and the urban Chinese diasporas of North America and Europe, Chinatowns reveals connections and interlinkages which have not been addressed before.
Author: Wendy Rouse Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807898589 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.
Author: Steven P. Erie Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804751407 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 388
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Examines the history of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, from its obscure 1920s-era origins, through the Colorado River Aqueduct and State Water Projects, to today's daunting mission of drought management, water quality, environmental stewardship, and post-9/11 supply security. Simultaneous.
Author: Julia Flynn Siler Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101910291 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 450
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During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration--from 1848 to 1943--San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, bestselling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history--and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped. The Occidental Mission Home, situated on the edge of Chinatown, served as a gateway to freedom for thousands. Run by a courageous group of female Christian abolitionists, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violent attacks. We meet Dolly Cameron, who ran the home from 1899 to 1934, and Tien Fuh Wu, who arrived at the house as a young child after her abuse as a household slave drew the attention of authorities. Wu would grow up to become Cameron's translator, deputy director, and steadfast friend. Siler shows how Dolly and her colleagues defied convention and even law--physically rescuing young girls from brothels, snatching them from their smugglers--and how they helped bring the exploiters to justice. Riveting and revelatory, The White Devil's Daughters is a timely, extraordinary account of oppression, resistance, and hope.
Author: Carol Green Wilson
Author: Carol Green Wilson
Author: Eva Armentrout Ma
Author: Carol Green Wilson
Author: Ko-lin Chin
Author: Vanessa Künnemann
Author: Min Zhou
Author: Wendy Rouse
Author: Kathleen Kennedy
Author: Steven P. Erie
Author: Julia Flynn Siler