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  New York China Town History A Portrait of a Closed Society
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Make/Author/Artist: Gwen Kinkead
Edition/ Material: First edition/ First printing
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: CHINAT

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>ChinaTown
A Portrait of a Closed Society

Gwen Kindkead's fascinating book is an explanation of a mystery: Chinatown. In the first book in fifty years to break the code of silence about New York's Chinatown, Kinkead offers us an intimate portrait of an exciting community that is also one of the most insular and until now, enigmatic in the world.

New York's Chinatown is the largest in the Western Hemisphere, a vibrant, chaotic little piece of China entirely segregated from the United States.

Against all odds, Kinkead managed to get recent immigrants to Chinatown to speak to her -- an astonishing feat for a low faan (a barbarian, white person) with a notepad.

Her portraits of Chinatown's invisible people are intriguing. They work in its garment factories and restaurants, where child labor laws seem not to apply; they do not speak English and have no desire or opportunity to learn the language; they rarely, if ever; venture outside Chinatown's boundaries and have no interest in the American world surrounding their enclave.

Kinkead describes the family associations, the tongs and the gangs they employ to extort and murder. She charts the growth of Chinese organized crime, now smuggling in half the herioin in the United States.

She illuminates the Chinese work ethic, their attitude toward money, the extended -family obligations, their traditions of concubinage, the Chinese penchant for gambling, their newspapers -- owned by Chinese in Asia who determine what is reported and how -- the importance of food, Chinatown's millionaires and more!

A rich eye-opening account of a little-known community, Chinatownis also a provocative reflection on assimilation and racism in this country.

CONDITION:Hard cover with Dust Jacket, Used but in Excellent condition. First edition, first printing

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