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"From George Washington's desire (in the heat of the Revolutionary War) for a proper set of Chinese porcelains for afternoon tea, to the lives of Chinese-Irish couples in the 1830s, to the commercial success of Chang and Eng (the "Siamese Twins"), to rising fears of "heathen Chinee," New York before Chinatown offers a provocative look at the role Chinese people, things, and ideas played in the fashioning of American culture and politics."--BOOK JACKET.
"Piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes from the years before Chinatown emerged in the late 1870s, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen redraws Manhattan's historical landscape and broadens our understanding of the role of port cultures in the making of American identities."--BOOK JACKET.
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American Foreign public opinion, Immigranten, Opinion publique américaine, Chinesen, Histoire, Chinezen, Public opinion, American Public opinion, Oriëntalisme, Opinion publique, History, Chinatown (new york, n.y.), Chinese, united states, New york (n.y.), history, New york (n.y.), social conditions, Chinese americans, East and west, New york (n.y.), emigration and immigrationShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882
August 22, 2001, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press
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New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882
August 2, 1999, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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"The use of Chinese things, ideas, and people in the United States, in various imagined and real forms, has been instrumental in forming this nation's cultural identity."
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