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7%OFFPhilip P. Choy - San Francisco Chinatown - 9780872865402 - V9780872865402
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San Francisco Chinatown

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Description for San Francisco Chinatown Paperback. San Francisco Chinatown is the first history of and guide to SF Chinatown written by someone born and raised there. Num Pages: 184 pages, B&W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AMX; JFSL3; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 117 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Winner of the American Book Award San Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kind-an "insider's guide" to one of America's most celebrated ethnic enclaves by an author born and raised there. Written by architect and Chinese American studies pioneer Philip P. Choy, the book details the triumphs and tragedies of the Chinese American experience in the U.S. Both a history of America's oldest and most famous Chinese community and a guide to its significant sites and architecture, San Francisco Chinatown traces the development of the neighborhood from the city's earliest days to its post-quake transformation into an ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872865402
SKU
V9780872865402
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About Philip P. Choy
Philip P. Choy was born 1926 in San Francisco Chinatown at a time when an invisible boundary isolated the community from mainstream San Francisco. He lived on the N.W. corner of Pacific and Grant Ave. where his father co-owned a meat market that catered not only to the Chinese in the community but to the neighboring Italian housewives in ... Read more

Reviews for San Francisco Chinatown
"Philip P. Choy's San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture is just what local and out-of-town tourists have wanted and needed... History buffs will be amazed by the wealth of lore, legend and radiant fact."
San Francisco Chronicle "San Francisco Chinatown illuminates the untold history of the enclave... to consider the political, historical, and cultural implications of Chinatown's ... Read more

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