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Chinese laundry
Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South
John Jung
Yin & Yang Press
, 2008
What Leading Scholars And Readers Say About "Southern Fried Rice"
"Southern Fried Rice tells the overlooked history of Chinese Americans in the Deep South through the author's account of his family's experiences in Georgia running a laundry from the late 1920s through the 1950s. This inside view of an immigrant family who struggled ...
Chinese Laundries: Tickets To Survival On Gold Mountain
John Jung
Lulu.com
, 2008
What Leading Scholars Say About "Chinese Laundries"
From The Foreword: ... What is remarkable is the combination of this historical perspective with his social psychological descriptions and analyses of laundrymen and their descendants. The personal life stories, with their inner thought,feeling, values, attitudes, ...
Fun in a Chinese laundry: An autobiography
Josef Von Sternberg
Collier Books
, 1973
The titanic ego of Jo Sternberg
Jo Sternberg received his first screen credit in 1923, as an assistant director. The film's producer streched Jo's name by adding the --sef von-- to it, saying the longer title sounded regal. Sternberg hated the idea, until criticism came in from everywhere that "the ...
The Chinese Laundry
Robert B. Boeder
Old Mountain Press
, 2005
A novel of the San Juan Mountains
Fun In Chinese Laundry (Lively Arts)
Josef Von Sternberg
Mercury House
, 1988
The arts somehow survive when all else has vanished
In this magisterial autobiography, Josef von Sternberg reflects about his personal career, film and its history and art. Von Sternberg will always be remembered for one of the most impressive movies of all times 'Der blaue Engel', but his career covers the sound and ...
Inside the Oy Quong Laundry
Kathleen Kong Wing
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Carolyn Wing Greenlee
Earthen Vessel Productions
, 1998
Peek into Californias past through the eyes of the Chinese
A delightful telling of the harsh life and triumph of a Chinese daughter and her struggles in Merced, California. Written by a third generation westernized Chinese daughter, the book tells about her mother and grandparent's life in the Oy Quong Laundry. An ...
From Ironing Board to Corporate Board: My Chinese Laundry Experience in America
Ginny Gong
Homa & Sekey Books
, 2008
Chinese American memoir for all ages
From Ironing Board to Corporate Board is a quintessential immigrant tale. Ginny Gong, the eldest child of a hardworking Chinese American family who operates a laundry in New York, finds herself balancing two worlds. She works hard to meet her parents' expectations of ...
China Dog: And Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry
Judy Fong Bates
Counterpoint
, 2002
Beautiful portrayal of a closeted community
Judy Fong Bates is a talented writer-someone who was born in China but moved to Canada as a young child. Her keen eyes expertly capture the immigrant experience in the collection of short stories: China Dog and other Stories from a Chinese Laundry. Bates has done a ...
Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada (Mercury Series)
Ban Seng Hoe
University of Washington Press
, 2004
Faced with systematic discrimination in Canada, early Chinese immigrants had little choice but to create their own economic niche. From the turn of the twentieth century through the Second World War, a majority of Canada?s Chinese immigrants were laundry workers in towns and cities from coast to coast. Although the hand laundry was not a ...
The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation (New York Chinatown history project)
Paul Siu
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John Kuo Wei Tchen
NYU Press
, 1988
The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation
This book is a MUST-READ for anyone interested in understanding Chinese Chicago in the 1930s from an "insider's perspective." Although the book centers on the lives of Chinese laundrymen, the countless interviews detailed throughout the book helps the reader understand ...
Asesinato en una lavanderķa china.(TT: Murder in a Chinese Laundry): An article from: Siempre!
Vicente Francisco Torres
Edicional Siempre
, 1997
This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on March 13, 1997. The length of the article is 785 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any ...
YICK WO V. HOPKINS: An entry from Thomson Gale's
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Thomson Gale
, 2005
?West's Encyclopedia of American Law? is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West?s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with ...
Enduring Hardship: the Chinese Laundry in Canada.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies ...
Alan L. Chan
Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
, 2004
This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Canadian Ethnic Studies Association on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 568 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately ...
Asesinato en una lavanderķa china.(TT: Murder in a Chinese Laundry): An article from: Siempre!
Ignacio Trejo Fuentes
Edicional Siempre
, 1996
This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on December 26, 1996. The length of the article is 723 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with ...
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