New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 by John Kuo Wei Tchen

New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

John Kuo Wei Tchen

416 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative slow-paced
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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"), ...

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