| Chinatowns of New York City Contributor(s): Tan, Wendy Wan-Yin (Author) |
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ISBN: 073855510X ISBN-13: 9780738555102 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: For a span of more than a century, New Yorkas Chinese communities have grown uninterruptedly from three streets in lower Manhattan to five Chinatowns, over 100 street blocks, across the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. No other Chinese communities outside Asia come close to this magnitude. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies |
| Dewey: 974.7 |
| LCCN: 2007929103 |
| Series: Then & Now (Arcadia) |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (0.65 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For a span of more than a century, New York's Chinese communities have grown uninterruptedly from three streets in lower Manhattan to five Chinatowns, over 100 street blocks, across the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. No other Chinese communities outside Asia come close to this magnitude. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tan, Wendy Wan: - Wendy Wan-Yin Tan, a librarian and associate professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York and a profound lover of Chinese culture, uses historic and modern images to bear witness to some of these changes in Chinatowns of New York City. |