Tchen, John Kuo Wei
New York Before Chinatown
- ISBN 13:
- 9780801867941
- author:
- Tchen, John Kuo Wei
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2001
- Pages:
- 385
- Dimensions:
- 229mm / 152mm
- Genre:
- History Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
New York Before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 by John Kuo Wei Tchen. This book offers a provocative look at the role Chinese people, things, and ideas played in shaping American culture and politics. By piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen redraws Manhattan's historical landscape and broadens our understanding of port cultures in the making of American identities. The book explores America's fascination with Asia as a source of luxury items, cultural taste, and lucrative trade, before examining how Chinese people became objects of curiosity in the commercial marketplace. It also delves into how Americans' attitude toward the Chinese changed from fascination to demonization, leading to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Acts beginning in 1882. Through its three-part narrative, Tchen sheds new light on a pivotal period in American history, revealing the complex and often contradictory ways in which Chinese culture influenced the development of American society.
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