Title:Alas! What Brought Thee Hither?:The Chinese in New York, 1800-1950
Price:GBP£29.00 (about USD$36.50)
Item ID:DI00-dscf3901
Quantity:1
Publisher:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997
Edition:First Edition
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good Condition
Dust Jacket:Good
A Very Good copy. Tightly bound, clean, bright, unmarked pages. Rubbing to edges of jacket, plus short closed tear to top front edge. This is the first iconographic history of the Chinese in New York. The history of immigrants who left scant records of their struggle to survive in a society in which the Chinese were reviled as angerous, opium soaked, and unassimilable is recounted. Includes 180 illustrations. 203 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1250 grams. Category: Sociology & Culture; ISBN/EAN: 9780838637043. Inventory No: dscf3901.