Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943
Subtitle: a trans-Pacific community
By: Yong Chen.
Series: Asian America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History; San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
Description: "This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco, relating the development of various social and cultural institutions, ranging from brothels to the powerful "Six Companies." The book recaptures in vivid detail not only the community's collective mentalities but also the lives of ordinary people - laborers, theater-goers, gamblers, and prostitutes.

In so doing, the author achieves what has been missing from virtually all the historiographic writing on the Chinese in America - he brings to life individual personalities with their varying human qualities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-378) and index.