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1. 979.4-C - This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco, relating the development of various social and cultural institutions, ranging from brothels to the powerful "Six Companies." The book recaptures in vivid detail not only the community's collective mentalities but also the lives of ordinary people—laborers, theater-goers, gamblers, and prostitutes. In so doing, the author achieves what has been missing from virtually all the historiographic writing on the Chinese in America—he brings to life individual personalities with their varying human qualities.

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2. 979.4-F - Monterey Park, California, is a community of 60,000 residents, located east of downtown Los Angeles. Dubbed by the media the "First Suburban Chinatown," Monterey Park is the only city in the continental United States with a majority Asian American population. Since the early 1970s, large numbers of Chinese immigrants moved there and transformed a quiet, predominantly white middle-class bedroom community into a bustling international boomtown. Timothy Fong examines the demographic, economic, social, and cultural changes taking place in Monterey Park, as well as the political reactions to change. Although the city was initially recognized for its liberal attitude toward newcomers, rapid economic development and population growth spawned numerous problems. Greater density, traffic congestion, less open space and parking, and strain on city services are problems that any city would encounter with rapid unplanned growth. The prominence of Chinese-language business signs, and ethnic restaurants, markets, and shops persuaded many older residents to focus blame on the immigrants. Fong describes how, by 1986, the once ethnically diverse city council became predominantly white and promoted such "anti-Chinese" measures as controlled growth and English as the official language. Unlike earlier waves of Asian immigrants, many of the Chinese who settled in Monterey Park were affluent and well educated. Resentment over their rapid material success was fueled by pervasive anti-Asian sentiment throughout the country. Fearing that newcomers were "taking over" and refusing to assimilate, residents supported a series of initiatives intended to strengthen "community control." These initiatives were branded as "racist" by development interests, as well as by many of the usually apolitical Chinese in the city. Fong chronicles the evolution of the conflict and locates the beginnings of its recovery from internal strife and unwanted negative media attention. He demonstrates how the parallel emergence of a populist growth control movement and a nativist anti-immigrant movement diverted attention from legitimate concerns over uncontrolled development in the city. Similar conflicts are occurring in other areas of California, as well as in New York City's Manhattan and Queens boroughs; Houston, Texas; and Orlando, Florida. Fong's detailed study of Monterey Park explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organizing tools and weapons.

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3. 979.4-G - A historical essay plus reports on many interviews are used to re-create the atmosphere of growing up in the all-Chinese town of Locke, California.

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4. 979.4-J - Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film—of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold—is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity—ethnic, national, and sexual—were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish. Maps, illustrations.

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5. 979.4-J - Silver and Gold includes works by Robert Vance, P. M. Batchelder, William Shew, Frederick Coombs, and W. H. Rulofson - images of native Californians and those who shared the land with them, memorable images of the men and women who sought their fortunes in the gold fields. Photographs from the mining communities reflect the miners' rough houses, sunburned faces, and makeshift clothes, capturing the isolation and determination of people working under difficult conditions far from home. Essays by John Wood, poet and founding president of the Daguerreian Society; Peter Palmquist, independent scholar and curator in the field of photography; and Drew Johnson and Marcia Eymann, co-curators of the Oakland Museum exhibition that complements this volume, enhance these striking early images. In addition, annotations on the back of the photographs and written accounts of the experiences they record provide glimpses into the intentions of the photographers.

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6. 979.4-J - Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film—of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold—is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity—ethnic, national, and sexual—were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish. Maps, illustrations.

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7. 979.4-K - A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.

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8. 979.4-K - A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.

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9. 979.4-K - A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. It is a sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry.

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10. 979.4-K - Two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family's past and her culture's stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.

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11. 979.4-K - The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a memoir, or collection of memoirs, written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston. Throughout the book's five chapters, Kingston blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. What results is a complex portrayal of the 20th century experiences of Chinese-Americans living in the U.S in the shadow of the Chinese Revolution.

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12. 979.4-K - The Four Immigrants Manga is a wonderful primary-source document for anyone interested in gaining insight on the Japanese immigration experience in San Francisco near the beginning of the twentieth century. In its original incarnation, The Four Immigrants Manga was bilingual, written in Japanese and English, but this newly reprinted version has been fully reproduced in English.

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13. 979.4-K - The news of gold in California beckoned people from every continent on earth. This astonishing and instant migration would leave its mark forever on California and, indeed, the entire world. Taking a comprehensive look at the excitement, unrest, exploitation, and romanticism of the California gold rush, this unique and authoritative anthology combines firsthand accounts by the participants themselves and retrospective writings by later authors with dozens of historical photographs, cartoons, and other illustrations. Long sea voyages, arduous overland trips, life in early, bohemian San Francisco, and the feudalism of late gold rush society - all are vividly described in the words of those who experienced them. The writings of well-known authors like Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Dame Shirley, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London blend with less familiar voices - Native Californians, Jews, immigrants from Asia, South America, and Europe, and women. Modern authors such as Bill Barich, Czeslaw Milosz, and Gary Snyder offer contemporary perspectives on the gold rush's environmental, economic, and cultural legacies. Together, these rich writings evoke the spirit and emotions of this legendary era.

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14. 979.4-K - The Four Immigrants Manga is a wonderful primary-source document for anyone interested in gaining insight on the Japanese immigration experience in San Francisco near the beginning of the twentieth century. In its original incarnation, The Four Immigrants Manga was bilingual, written in Japanese and English, but this newly reprinted version has been fully reproduced in English.

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15. 979.4-L - Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee / George Lee / edited by Geoffrey Dunn; essays by Lisa Liu Grady, Tony Hill, James D. Houston, Sandy Lydon, Morton Marcus, and George Ow, Jr.

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16. 979.4-L - History of Chinese immigrants in the Monterey Bay Region.

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17. 979.4-L - No monuments, no prominent place names, no gilt "Chinese-style" buildings, and no large concentrations of Chinese people attest to the Chinese presence in the Moneterey Bay Region. In 1982 a local newspaper gave the following assessment of Asian immigration when reconstructing the arrival of immigrant groups into the Pajaro Valley: Original Spanish subjects [were] replaced by early American settlers of European background, followed by the arrival of the Croatians, who became a dominant economic factor, and the Portuguese, and now the Mexicans, with a sprinkling of Orientals down through the years. The Chinese, like the Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, and Southeast Asians, have consistently been thought of as "sprinkled" throughout history, marginal participants who made no major contributions. Yet Chinese contributions were fundamental to the region's economic development. In Watsonville, known for its diverse agriculture, Chinese farm laborers provided the muscle and ingenuity which led to agricultural diversification in the Pajaro Valley. Until their arrival in the 1860s, wheat was the dominant crop. The sugar beet industry which led an agricultural revolution in both the Salinas and Pajaro Valleys wsa built on the backs of dependable Chinese workers. At the turn of the century the Chinese helped pioneer the fruit-drying industry which made the difference between profit and loss on the apple crop. In Salinas the Chinese reclaimed thousands of acres of Salinas Valley tule swamps and brought them into production as well as providing the labor for a diversification similar to that which transformed the Pajaro Valley. In Monterey, were Cannery Row is now a tourist attraction, the Chinese founded the commercial fishing industry and for a half-century inspired other fishermen in the area to expand the definition of marketable products to include squid, mussels, abalone, and seaweed. Santa Cruz became a resort town because Chinese made the cuts, drilled the tunnels, and laid the rails which brought trainloads of tourists into Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. In fact, most of the large development projects undertaken in the region in the nineteenth century, whether they were railroads, irrigation projects, or major water systems, relied on Chinese laborers.... Excerpt from Introduction

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18. 979.4-L - In the late summer of 1984, the author and a group of his archaeology students excavated fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village a hundred miles north of San Francisco. How did these ceramics, which were more than a hundred years old, find their way to this remote area? And what could one make of local legend that told of Pomo women wearing Chinese silk shawls in the 1850's? The author determined to find the answers to these questions, never dreaming that his quest would eventually involve the lives of nineteenth-century Boston merchants, Baltimore shipbuilders, Bombay opium brokers, and newly rich businessmen in gold rush San Francisco. The author soon learned that in 1850 the clipper Frolic, a sailing ship built specifically for the Asian opium trade, had wrecked on the Mendocino coast, a few miles from the Pomo village. He unearthed the business records of its owners, A. Heard & Co., which showed that respectable Bostonians had made their fortunes running opium from India to China. The family histories of the firm's two most influential partners are traced from the American Revolution to their joint decision to order a custom-built Baltimore clipper for the opium trade. In describing the design, construction, and outfitting of the Frolic, the author was aided by a stroke of luck—a slave named Fred Bailey, later known to the world as the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, worked in the Frolic's shipyard in 1836 and wrote detailed descriptions of the building of such ships. The Frolic, under Captain Edward Faucon (who was depicted as the "good" captain in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast) plied the opium trade from Bombay to China from 1845 to 1850. The author describes the political, financial, and logistical aspects of the profitable enterprise before 1849, when the introduction of steam vessels into the opium trade made the Frolic obsolete as an opium clipper. However, the California gold rush created a lucrative market for Chinese goods, and the Heard firm dispatched the Frolic to San Francisco with a diverse cargo that included silks, porcelain, jewelry, and furniture. When the Frolic wrecked on the Mendocino coast, the Pomo Indians salvaged its cargo, and the vessel's history passed into folk tradition. The subsequent lives of those intimately associated with the Frolic are profiled. The owners' families preferred to forget the source of their fortunes, and prior to her death in 1942, the daughter of the Frolic's captain burned her father's papers to preserve his reputation. She could not know that in 1965 sports divers would discover the remains of her father's opium clipper, and that 134 years after its wreck, the Frolic's story would inspire an archaeologist-anthropologist to pursue its colorful history.

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19. 979.4-M - Since its publication in 1972, "San Francisco's Telegraph Hill" has been considered the definitive history of one of the San Francisco's oldest and most beloved neighborhoods. This new edition brings back into print that fascinating account with all of the original photographs, and completes the story up to the present through the addition of thirty-two new pages and many additional photographs.

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20. 979.4-M - A picturesque horde wearing pigtails and blue jackets swarmed among the big-hatted and heavy-booted Westerners, the Mexicans, Spanish, French, and Kanaka Islanders of early California. The horde came to find gold, and finding it, they stayed because the land of California pleased them. They wrote to relatives and friends to join them, and an unprecedented immigration took place to these shores which was curbed by the Anti-Chinese riots led by Kearney.

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