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Article: Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community. (Reviews).
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community. By Yong Chen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi plus 392 pp. $45.00).
While other scholars have studied the Chinese community in San Francisco, especially during the period from the initial arrival of immigrants during the gold rush of the mid-19th century to the onset of World War II, Yong Chen's study offers fascinating, new insights by recreating the social, cultural, and political world of his subjects. Critical of previous approaches that either focused on the perspectives of non-Chinese or else responded to paradigms formulated externally to the community, Chen seeks to uncover the ...