American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods

"A wonderfully revealing and compassionate trip into the real lives of men and women who straddle the world’s two great powers” (The New Yorker) this inside look at the Chinatowns in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Las Vegas “captures the essence of each by telling the stories of its people” (Contra Costa Times).

Where in America can you visit another country without needing a passport? Chinatown, USA: a world within a world and a state of mind.

In American Chinatown, acc...