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  1. 974.7-L - In this ethnography Jan Lin brilliantly explodes multiple fables about Chinatown constructed by white mythmakers over the last century. Polticians, movies, and TV shows have created stereotypes of dangerous or mysterious 'Orientals' and of exotic urban zones and red light districts. This anti-immigrant imagery gives way as we see the complexity and vitality of life in Manhattan's Chinatown community, a real place with the sights and sounds of real people. These Americans have built community in the face of chronic intrusions-from government redevelopment and deferal immigration policy to corporate exploitation and cycling investment from China. Lin reveals the problems and change characteristic of urban communities thrust increasingly into the globalizing economy of the late twentieth century. -excerpt from the back of the book

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    Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change Front Cover
  2. 974.70-S - The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz and Grace Jones. There were also women who led quieter private lives but were just as influential, such as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work.

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    The Woman Who Made New York
  3. 974.71 - The presence of Chinese in the United States has been a fruitful topic of angry political discussion, of legislative investigation, of congressional legislation and of judicial inquiry for twenty years past. But still they remain with us, and apparently continue to flow in upon us why they should come to this country, or why they should not come, are still open questions. To ad in the solution of the vexed problem is the chief purpose of this book. It s aim is to portray the everyday life of those CHINA MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE HEART OF New York City their home-their business occupations, social habits, amusements, religious observances and whatever else is peculiar to them as race; drawing the pictures from actual life, uninfluenced by favor or prejudices; exaggerating in no particular; concealing no faults; omitting no feature of profitable study, to then end that the reader will be enabled to reach a fair and just conclusion on the questions above.

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    New York’s Chinatown: An Historical Presentation of its People and Places,
  4. 974.71-B

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    Alas! what brought thee hither? : the Chinese in New York, 1800-1950.
  5. 974.71-B - "Based on 'New York : a documentary film' directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns ..."--T.p. verso.

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    New York : an illustrated history.
  6. 974.71-B - New York's Chinatown : an historical presentation of its people and places.

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    Lights and shadows of New York life-Cover
  7. 974.71-C

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    Cover
  8. 974.71-C

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    Cover
  9. 974.71-C - Cover with a boy reading a book on Chinatown. Ads and addresses lists included inside

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    Cover
  10. 974.71-C - Discussion of Chinese society & culture, and how Chinese customs are kept in Chinatown, New York. Includes address list of Chinatown businesses.

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    Back
  11. 974.71-C - Information on Chinese culture (food and recipes, tea, expressions, customs, flowers, family life, children, art, music, drama, fashion) and a guide to New York's Chinatown (dining, shopping, celebrations). Also included are riddles, proverbs, greetings from Eng Wah and a half-page biography on Shavey Lee. Front Text: Complete information for sightseers about the Oriental Colony, its people, culture, and delicious food

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    Chinatown handy guide, New York City. Cover
  12. 974.71-D - A pictorial history of New York from 1789 to after World War II.

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    New York : a pictorial history.
  13. 974.71-F

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    Chinatown Handy Guide: New York City [photocopy] Image 1
  14. 974.71-F - Forty-Cent Tip: Stories of New York City Immigrant Workers / The Students of Three New York Public International High Schools / introduction by Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco; edited by What Kids Can Do

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    Forty-Cent Tip: Stories of New York City Immigrant Workers Front Cover
  15. 974.71-F - A Guidebook for New York Chinatown. Some Advertisements include: The Great Shanghai Restaurant and Bar, Address: 2685 Broadway, bet. 102nd&103rd Streets Tel: UN 4-5906 Toy Wan Restaurant Address: 194 Canal Street, New York, NY Co 7-2221 C.T.L00 Chinese Art Frank Caro, Succ. Member of the New York Antique and Art dealers Assn. Address: New York 41 East 57th Street/ Paris 48 Rue de Courcelles Chinatown Fair Address: 7 Mott St. Notes: "Don't forget to say, "Hello," to The Vaudeville Star of the Chinatown fair, Clarabelle, the marvelous, scientifically trained performing chicken. Ting's Company: Chinese dress and Accessories, Artwears, Imported Gifts Address:18 Doyers St. Blue Line way: Address: Sightseeing Tours Inc. 116 W. 48 St., N.Y.N.Y.C. Judson 6-6516 Note: "Guided Tours in Glass-Roofed Buses. All the Interesting Sights of New York special Boat and Bus Tours to Statue of Liberty, around Manhattan". The Yeh Yu Opera Association Address: P.O. Box 117, Cathedral Station New York 25, New York KEEN WAH Merchandise Co. Address: Bayard St. WA 5-0172 Note: Chinese Records, vocal instrumental, Chinese Musical Instruments The Chinese Temple Gift Shop Address: 13 Mott St. Note: Chinese Dresses, Oriental Jewelry, Silver Serving Pieces and Ornaments, Brass Incense Burners, Bells, Candlesticks, Slippers, Sandals, Statuettes, Embroideries Scarfs, handkerchiefs, Some illustrations include: Nationally-known Band of the San Francisco Chinese Public School, p88 Flower Arrangements, p85. Chinese traditional clothing styles from Tang Dynasty to present, p86.Beauty of the Orient, p.84

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    Chinatown Handy Guide:New York City-Cover
  16. 974.71-G

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    Cover
  17. 974.71-G - A guidebook to the the neighborhoods and landmark structures of Manhattan and Roosevelt Island. The book is organized geographically by neighborhood, and has photographs of select buildings.

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    The city observed, New York. Cover
  18. 974.71-G - A story of Kung in Chinatown New York City.

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    Three times I bow-Cover
  19. 974.71-G - A story of Kung in Chinatown New York City.

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    Three times I bow-Cover
  20. 974.71-G - Interesting stories about people who live in Chinatown.

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    Shake hands with the dragon-Contents

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