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Release : 2019-09-30
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Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis More Memories of Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown by :
Download or read book More Memories of Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown written by . This book was released on 2019-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of memories, stories and anecdotes from Baby Boomer American Born Chinese (ABC) about their formative years in the title neighborhood
Author : Edmund S. Wong
Release : 2018
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown: Boomer Memories from Noodle Rolls to Apple Pie by : Edmund S. Wong
Download or read book Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown: Boomer Memories from Noodle Rolls to Apple Pie written by Edmund S. Wong. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese American baby boomers who grew up within the twenty-nine square blocks of San Francisco's Chinatown lived in two worlds. Elders implored the younger generation to retain ties with old China even as the youth felt the pull of a future sheathed in red, white and blue. The family-owned shops, favorite siu-yeh (snack) joints and the gai-chongs where mothers labored as low-wage seamstresses contrasted with the allure of Disney, new cars and football. It was a childhood immersed in two vibrant cultures and languages, shaped by both. Author Edmund S. Wong brings to life Chinatown's heart and soul from its golden age.
Author : Edmund S Wong
Release : 2017-12-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 955/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown by : Edmund S Wong
Download or read book Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown written by Edmund S Wong. This book was released on 2017-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese American baby boomers who grew up within the twenty-nine square blocks of San Francisco's Chinatown lived in two worlds. Elders implored the younger generation to retain ties with old China even as the youth felt the pull of a future sheathed in red, white and blue. The family-owned shops, favorite siu-yeh (snack) joints and the gai-chongs where mothers labored as low-wage seamstresses contrasted with the allure of Disney, new cars and football. It was a childhood immersed in two vibrant cultures and languages, shaped by both. Author Edmund S. Wong brings to life Chinatown's heart and soul from its golden age.
Author : Wendy Rouse
Release : 2009-10-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Children of Chinatown by : Wendy Rouse
Download or read book The Children of Chinatown written by Wendy Rouse. This book was released on 2009-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Frank Dunnigan
Release : 2016
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 704/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park by : Frank Dunnigan
Download or read book Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park written by Frank Dunnigan. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From football games at Kezar Stadium to a perfectly broiled Zim burger, San Franciscans have fond memories of the decades after World War II. Dressing up for a movie at the Fox Theatre on Market Street, catching the train at the old S.P. Station on Third and Townsend, taking the streetcar downtown to see magnificent displays in the Emporium's windows or spending a day at Golden Gate Park, the outside lands of San Francisco were teeming with youngsters and the young-at-heart alike. Western Neighborhoods Project columnist and San Francisco native Frank Dunnigan offers a charming collection of nostalgic vignettes about the thriving Western communities of unforgettable people and places that defined generations.
