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Author : Arnold Genthe,John Kuo Wei Tchen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780486140698
130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.
Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520225929
Throughout European history, Jews have been associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. This is the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effect on modern Jewish identity.
Author : Will Irwin,Arnold Genthe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Chinatown
ISBN : UVA:X000966410
Author : Anne Anlin Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Asians
ISBN : 9780190604615
Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification and past the critique of Orientalism in order to formulate a fresher and sharper understanding of the representation, circulation, and ontology of Asiatic femininity. This book alters the foundational terms of racialized femininity by allowing us to conceptualize race and gender without being solely beholden to flesh or skin. Tracing a direct link between the making of Asiatic femininity and a technological history of synthetic personhood in the West from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Ornamentalism demonstrates how the construction of modern personhood in the multiple realms of law, culture, and art has been surprisingly indebted to this very marginal figure and places Asian femininity at the center of an entire epistemology of race. Drawing from and speaking to the multiple fields of feminism, critical race theory, visual culture, performance studies, legal studies, Modernism, Orientalism, Object Studies and New Materialism, Ornamentalism will leave reader with a greater understanding of what it is to exist as a "person-thing" within the contradictions of American culture.
Author : Kim K. Fahlstedt
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978804401
Chinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Kim K. Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street into the movie theater.
Author : Gail Jarrow
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781620917381
Uncover the true story of America's first plague epidemic in 1900 in this book is perfect to share with young readers looking for a historical perspective of the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic that recently gripped the world. In March 1900, San Francisco's health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world's deadliest diseases. But how could that be possible? Acclaimed author and scientific expert Gail Jarrow brings the history of a medical mystery to life in vivid and exciting detail for young readers. She spotlights the public health doctors who desperately fought to end it, the political leaders who tried to keep it hidden, and the brave scientists who uncovered the plague's secrets. This title includes photographs and drawings, a glossary, a timeline, further resources, an author's note, and source notes.
Author : Todd Vogel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813534321
What did it mean for people of colour to speak or write 'white'? More specifically, how many & what kinds of meaning could such 'white' writing carry? This work looks at how America has radicalized language & aesthetic achievement.
Author : Julia Flynn Siler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101910290
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 : Arnold Genthe,LT Col Will Irwin
Publisher : Westphalia Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1633912272
This volume is one of a number of Westphalia titles significant in the story of the not always happy and often controversial Chinese contact with Western society. In the American case, despite appreciation by scholars for Chinese civilization, cries against Chinese immigration began in response to the development of the transcontinental railroad that saw the arrival of immigrants exploited as cheap labor. The first restrictive Act passed on May 6, 1882, and was the start of a series of increasingly more restrictive laws against Chinese, such as the Act to Prohibit the Coming of Chinese Persons into the United States, known more popularly as the Geary Act of May 1892. It wasn't until the Immigration Act of October 1965 when the exclusionary practices were lifted, despite President Truman's signing of the Act to Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts, to Establish Quotas and for Other Purposes in December of 1943.
Author : Björn A. Schmidt
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Chinese Americans
ISBN : 9783412505325
In the early twentieth century Hollywood was fascinated by the Far East. Chinese immigrants, however, were excluded since 1882 and racism pervaded U.S. society. When motion pictures became the most popular form of entertainment, immigration and race were heavily debated topics. 'Visualizing Orientalness' is the first book that analyses the significance of motion pictures within these discourses. Taking up approaches from the fields of visual culture studies and visual history, Björn A. Schmidt undertakes a visual discourse analysis of films from the 1910s to 1930s. The author shows how the visuality of films and the historical discourses and practices that surrounded them portrayed Chinese immigration and contributed to notions of Chinese Americans as a foreign and other race.
Author : Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520230958
"An immensely ambitious book, American Workers, Colonial Power is a regional history with ever widening spatial and social circles, each one layered and complex. Filipina/o Seattle, this study shows, reflects and exemplifies much of the American West and U.S., and affirms the mutually influential relationship, especially in terms of culture, between the U.S. and the Philippines. This is a work of deep scholarship and broad significance."—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History
Author : Peter Booth Wiley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0471191205
National Trust guides are the most in-depth guides available to the history and architecture of U.S. cities. From famous landmarks to back alleys, they take you on exciting journeys through America's cultural, historical, and architectural treasures. The complete guide to the history and architecture of San Francisco Part history, part travel guide, this unique book introduces you to the colorful past and diverse traditions that have shaped the fascinating city of San Francisco. From the arrival of the Spanish in the late eighteenth century to the growth of today's vibrant metropolis, you'll discover the links between the rich history and architectural heritage of one of America's most beloved cities. Follow the book's outstanding walking tours as you explore the remnants of the Gold Rush era city and the early neighborhoods of Telegraph Hill, Chinatown, and South of Market. You'll also enjoy the beautiful Beaux-Arts mansions of Pacific Heights, the striking Queen Anne residences of Haight-Ashbury, the converted warehouses of the Multi-Media Gulch, and much more. 20 detailed neighborhood walking tours and easy-to-follow maps Colorful stories behind the city's best known landmarks 200 vintage and contemporary photographs
Author : Judy Yung
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738531308
An evocative collection of vintage photographs traces the history of San Francisco's Chinatown, the largest and oldest Chinese enclave outside of Asia, from the Gold Rush era to the present day, capturing the realities of everyday life, as well as the changes in the community, the challenges confronting the Chinese immigrants, and its rich cultural heritage. Original.
Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195335798
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Author : Stephanie Barron,Sheri Bernstein,Ilene Susan Fort
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520227651
"Made in California is divided into five twenty-year sections, each including a narrative essay discussing the history of that era and highlighting topics relevant to its visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
