San Francisco's Chinatown: A Revised Edition

by Judy Yung, Chinese Historical Society of America

Overview

San Francisco's Chinatown—the oldest, largest, and most famous Chinese enclave outside of Asia—is more than a tourist attraction. Since its birth in the 1850s, Chinatown has also been a residential neighborhood, business community, and cultural center for generations of Chinese Americans. This collection of vintage photographs, taken from public archives and private collections, looks beyond the facade of Chinatown to show the realities of daily life, including a community's struggle for survival against racial hostility, exclusion laws, two major earthquakes, and urban renewal. The images of ordinary people working, shopping, and socializing in Chinatown, combined with the changing streetscape, historic landmarks, and significant cultural and political events, are organized into three historical periods, providing a panoramic view of community transformation from the gold rush to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467116824
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/11/2016
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Historian Judy Yung, a native of San Francisco's Chinatown and the author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco, has teamed up with the Chinese Historical Society of America to tell an insider's story that reveals how a place visitors see as foreign and exotic is, in fact, a vibrant Chinese American neighborhood with a complex history and rich cultural legacy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

About the Author 6

Introduction 7

1 Tong Yun Fow: 1848-1906 9

2 Oriental City: 1906-1945 43

3 Gilded Ghetto: 1945-2000 81

4 Chinatown Today 119

Bibliography 125

Key to Historic Sites in Chinatown 126

Street Map of Chinatown 127